[COFF] The most surprising Unix programs
Clem Cole
clemc at ccc.com
Sat Mar 21 06:31:54 AEST 2020
On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 3:43 PM Grant Taylor via COFF <coff at minnie.tuhs.org>
wrote:
> Thank you for the comments gentlemen.
>
Most welcome.
>
> What I think I'm hearing you say is that with RPN you were shouldering
> part of the computational load based on how you were entering things so
> that they aligned as necessary with the stack. Conversely, you were
> simply "plug and chug" (as I've heard elsewhere). Meaning you entered
> the equation / formula and were largely hands off from the calculation.
>
> Is that accurate?
>
Fair enough.
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