Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!vsi1!altnet!uunet!mcvax!cernvax!hjm From: hjm@cernvax.UUCP (Hubert Matthews) Newsgroups: comp.lang.forth Subject: Re: RPN, Fights for its life (was Re: Infix operators) Message-ID: <810@cernvax.UUCP> Date: 31 Aug 88 09:54:34 GMT References: <8808121826.AA23206@jade.berkeley.edu> <1575@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> <6882@well.UUCP> <1581@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> <4057@juniper.uucp> <1585@crete.cs.glasgow.ac.uk> Reply-To: hjm@cernvax.UUCP (Hubert Matthews) Organization: CERN European Laboratory for Particle Physics, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland Lines: 9 English doesn't use much in the way of RPN, but take a look at German grammar. The primary verb comes as the second idea in a sentence and any auxiliary verb comes at the end. In a subordinate clause, both the primary and the auxiliary verbs come at the end. Just to show that RPN isn't that strange a concept.... Hubert Matthews