[COFF] The most surprising Unix programs

[Clem Cole]

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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