[TUHS] The most surprising Unix programs

arnold at skeeve.com arnold at skeeve.com
Wed Mar 18 18:40:46 AEST 2020


Dave Horsfall <dave at horsfall.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Mar 2020, ca6c at firemail.cc wrote:
>
> > There is something sexy about reverse Polish notation.  I really do 
> > encourage everyone reading this to try dc as their "desk calculator" for 
> > some time.
>
> I've been using my trusty HP-42S for so long that I can hardly remember 
> how to use a "normal" calculator :-)

This might interest you:

	https://github.com/arnoldrobbins/hp

Originally written in Ratfor for the Georgia Tech Software Tools Subsystem
and ported to C by yours truly in the mid-80s. I've kept it up to date
since then and use it almost daily.

Enjoy,

Arnold


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