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Volpe on Feb 19, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Lisp: It's Not About Macros, It's About Read

Have you seriously seen (non-computer) people write simple arithmetic as + 1 3 ?

This feels like a discussion based in fiction...

_19qg on Feb 19, 2012 | [–]

I've seen lots of people doing 1 enter 2 + on their HP calculators. Using them with RPL, reverse polish lisp.

burgerbrain on Feb 19, 2012 | [–]

Postfix notation is popular in the financial industries.

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