Re: RPN (was Re: TI-83 )
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Re: RPN (was Re: TI-83 )
> One of the "ground-up" principles on which APL is based is that there
should
> be no precedence between operations (there are just too darn many
operations
> in APL to try to keep a table of precedence, anyway). This is implemented
by
> the simple rule that a monadic operation (an operation taking one
argument)
> operates on everything to its right, and the right argument of a dyadic
(or
> infixed) operation consists of everything to _its_ right. Parentheses can
be
> used to modify this, but often are not needed.
I recently looked at some lines of APL I wrote when I was studying at the
South Henrietta Institute of Technology (S.H.I. of T.) and although I wrote
an entire inventory system and Accounts Receivable in about 10 lines of APL,
I can't figure out how those old programs work. This is not an uncommon
experience among APL programmers. It's so obfuscated as to be impossible to
maintain. I'll stick with a procedural (Von Neumann?) language, thanks!
Tom Lake
ICQ #25589135
> RWW Taylor
> National Technical Institute for the Deaf
> Rochester Institute of Technology
> Rochester NY 14623
>
> >>>> The plural of mongoose begins with p. <<<<
>
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