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When programmers see Lisp (lemmy.ml)

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

I have fond memories of RPL on the HP48 calculators where you would give arguments as a stack, then call the function. Something like (a+b)*c could be written C A B + * Such fun!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Reverse Polish notation, right? Operand operand operator?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

That's the one. The Wikipedia article has some extensive examples, too.

Its weird syntax prepared us well to face the horror of assembly language later on, so I have a certain fondness for it. That and I had absolutely no point of comparison at the time, haha!