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From: justin@inmet.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: Another \"D\" idea: RPN (and more)
Message-ID: <124200005@inmet>
Date: 8 Mar 88 16:51:00 GMT
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/* Written  4:29 pm  Mar  3, 1988 by gwyn@brl-smoke.UUCP in inmet:comp.lang.c */
In article <12088@brl-adm.ARPA> TLIMONCE%DREW.BITNET@CUNYVM.CUNY.EDU writes:
>I think that the one thing that really detracts from C is the fact that it
>isn't RPN.  Reverse-polish-notation has a lot of benefits.  First of all,
>we'd get the support of all the HP calculator lovers, all the FORTH users,
>and compiler writers would find it easier to write compilers since RPN is
>easier to parse.

This idea isn't totally off-the-wall, but it would move the D language
away from being a revised C and toward something markedly different.
/* End of text from inmet:comp.lang.c */

God, it's finally happened. I had heard about this trend, but I couldn't 
believe it. But it's really true. Nobody on the net (except in talk.bizarre)
is capable of recognizing sarcasm without a row of smileys at the end!

Come on, people, *think* about what you're reading. If we really have lost
the ability to tell what tone the article was written in, it means that
English on the net has degenerated a lot more than I thought.

					-- Justin du Coeur