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From: Grant Taylor via TUHS <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
To: tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org
Subject: Re: [TUHS] The most surprising Unix programs
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2020 11:23:52 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0b0d0ba3-7eae-a844-cc9a-ae542edb302b@tnetconsulting.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <202003201640.02KGerlG470796@darkstar.fourwinds.com>

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On 3/20/20 10:40 AM, Jon Steinhart wrote:
> RPN is much easier when thinking on the fly; algabraic is much easier
> when copying equations off of a page.

Would you humor me with an example of what you mean by "thinking on the 
fly"?  Either I'm not understanding you or we think differently.

I think I understand the algabraic copying.

> I think that this mainly comes from not having to worry about
> parentheses with RPN.  Moving things around on the stack when having
> to rearrange is easier than having to move things in and out of
> registers.

I'm not following.

With my limited understanding of RPN, I would not currently dare alter 
the stack.  Perhaps that's part of why I find RPN to be more of a 
computational burden in needing to rearrange the equation to align with 
stack order.



-- 
Grant. . . .
unix || die


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  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-20 17:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 54+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-13 23:31 Doug McIlroy
2020-03-14  0:40 ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-14 11:30 ` Harald Arnesen
2020-03-14 12:24   ` Clem Cole
2020-03-15 22:01     ` Rob Pike
2020-03-15 22:14       ` Larry McVoy
2020-03-15 23:34         ` Warner Losh
2020-03-16  2:45           ` Anthony Martin
2020-03-15 22:30       ` Clem Cole
2020-03-15 23:20       ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-16  0:56         ` Rob Pike
2020-03-20 23:20           ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-20 23:35             ` Toby Thain
2020-03-21  0:34             ` Rob Pike
2020-03-17 13:03 ` ca6c
2020-03-17 13:30   ` Andy Kosela
2020-03-17 14:53     ` Cág
2020-03-17 14:57       ` Larry McVoy
2020-03-17 14:59         ` Arrigo Triulzi
2020-03-17 15:40   ` Steve Nickolas
2020-03-17 22:28   ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-18  0:17     ` Jon Steinhart
2020-03-18  3:28       ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-18  8:40     ` arnold
2020-03-19 12:26     ` Mike Markowski
2020-03-19 21:31       ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-20 11:48         ` paul
2020-03-20 15:40           ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-03-20 16:40             ` Jon Steinhart
2020-03-20 17:23               ` Grant Taylor via TUHS [this message]
2020-03-20 18:43               ` Rich Morin
2020-03-19 20:01   ` Tomasz Rola
2020-03-19 20:57 Nelson H. F. Beebe
2020-03-19 21:18 ` Tomasz Rola
2020-03-20  7:14 ` arnold
2020-03-20  7:49   ` Thomas Paulsen
2020-03-20  8:18     ` arnold
2020-03-20 14:03 Noel Chiappa
2020-03-20 14:08 ` Richard Salz
2020-03-20 14:52   ` Larry McVoy
2020-03-20 14:58     ` Dagobert Michelsen
2020-03-20 15:05       ` Richard Salz
2020-03-20 22:09       ` Mike Markowski
2020-03-20 15:03     ` Gregg Levine
2020-03-20 15:05       ` Chet Ramey
2020-03-20 22:06     ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-21  4:59     ` Wesley Parish
2020-03-20 21:57   ` Dave Horsfall
2020-03-22 18:05     ` Tony Finch
2020-03-20 15:07 ` Nemo
2020-03-20 19:03   ` Adam Thornton
2020-03-20 16:07 ` Grant Taylor via TUHS
2020-09-13 15:44   ` Juergen Nickelsen
2020-03-21  1:12 Noel Chiappa

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