From: clemc at ccc.com (Clem Cole)
Subject: [COFF] The most surprising Unix programs
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 16:31:54 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAC20D2MjV4hS+JO1chgt-wMvzpvpoWziRZCzdTDp2jiMF+sgbA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fc23c61e-81e5-3f5a-adf4-28c8fd35fb0f@tnetconsulting.net>
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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2020-03-19 21:31 ` dave
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2020-03-19 21:48 ` stewart
2020-03-21 2:49 ` dave
2020-03-21 2:55 ` lm
2020-03-21 4:01 ` [COFF] HP calculator emulators (was: The most surprising Unix programs) grog
2020-03-21 7:21 ` [COFF] The most surprising Unix programs tih
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2020-03-20 19:11 ` clemc
2020-03-20 19:31 ` [COFF] " tih
2020-03-20 19:43 ` gtaylor
2020-03-20 19:47 ` gtaylor
2020-03-20 20:10 ` terry
2020-03-20 20:37 ` clemc
2020-03-20 20:30 ` tih
2020-03-20 20:31 ` clemc [this message]
2020-03-20 22:51 ` dave
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