From: doug@cs.dartmouth.edu (Doug McIlroy)
Subject: [TUHS] RIP Ken Iverson
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2015 06:59:42 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201510231059.t9NAxg23001024@coolidge.cs.Dartmouth.EDU> (raw)
Dan,
I wrote:
Quiz for the occasion: which major Unix utility adopted IPL's
unprecedented expression syntax?
You correctly responded:
troff.
I suppose, in a sense, that 'dc' also fits the bill but given that that is
inherent in it's stack based nature, I doubt that is what you meant.
The notion of precedence pertains specifically to infix notation, so
postfix dc is definitely not in the running.
Idle thought about my typo: Though APL is famously inscrutable, IPL
(specifically IPL-V) outshined it in that department.
Doug
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2015-10-23 10:59 Doug McIlroy [this message]
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2015-10-22 12:20 Doug McIlroy
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2015-10-22 13:34 ` Dan Cross
2015-10-21 5:27 Dave Horsfall
2015-10-21 15:41 ` Gilbert Morgan
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