On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 16:15:43 GMT, David Williams wrote:
> > What i would really like; is for my MacBook to have a built in
> > programming language that's as easy to use as RPL ( The programming
> > language used by my HP48 programmable calculator ) It is the easiest
> > and most intuitive programming language i've ever seen...
>
> A language called Forth, which was trendy about 25 years ago, used
> Reverse Polish Notation. I learned it reasonably well. However, it
> never really caught on, mainly because most people found the RPN
> way of doing things very *counter*-intuitive.
Not so much counter-intuitive, but different from what is taught in
public schools. I got used to it -- eventually -- because my first
calculator was RPN, but pretty much every time I used the thing, I'd
find myself doing 1 + 1 instead of 1 1 +.
> I don't know if there are any implementations of Forth still on the
> market.
http://directory.google.com/Top/Computers/Programming/Languages/Forth/
Under "Implementations" there are 97 items listed.
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/me does some more nothing.
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