On 8/17/2010 10:49 PM, Bill, W6WRT wrote:
> ORIGINAL MESSAGE:
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> On Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:38:00 -0400, Roger<sub1@rogerhalstead.com>
> wrote:
>
>> and I hated RPN with a passion. I find
>> the algebraic notation so much easier to work with. I just think that way.
> REPLY:
>
> Me too. A good friend tried to get me to use RPN many years ago and I
> just couldn't get it. It seemed so strange. Regular algebraic notation
> seems perfectly logical. There's some interesting psychology going on
> there. :-)
I can work in either, but I just don't like RPN even if it is simpler. I
just don't think that way!
Back in college we had to write an input scanner that would check for
prefix, postfix(RPN) and infix, then do the calculations.
I was the only one in compiler design to write a compiler with an input
scanner using current state and next state arrays and only the second or
third in the history of the university. <:-)) Even if I was 3 days late
getting it finished.<sigh> all that work and deductions for being late.
To change languages you only had to change the arrays.
73
Roger (K8RI)
> 73, Bill W6WRT
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