Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!usc!snorkelwacker!apple!sun-barr!newstop!texsun!smunews!ti-csl!m2!gateley From: gateley@m2.csc.ti.com (John Gateley) Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc Subject: Re: Anyone want to design a language? Message-ID: <111706@ti-csl.csc.ti.com> Date: 21 Feb 90 21:04:54 GMT References: <22569:05:10:24@stealth.acf.nyu.edu> <8475@wpi.wpi.edu> <111355@ti-csl.csc.ti.com> <447@fwi.uva.nl> <10979@saturn.ADS.COM> Sender: news@ti-csl.csc.ti.com Organization: TI Computer Science Center, Dallas Lines: 12 In article <10979@saturn.ADS.COM> xanthian@saturn.ADS.COM (Metafont Consultant Account) writes: > >Better, make the language strictly postfix, give it exactly one So, why is postfix better than prefix? One other poster mentioned postfix, and made the claim that it was better than prefix as well, and I am curious why y'all think so. (i'd take postfix over infix any day, but prefer prefix because I am used to it). John gateley@m2.csc.ti.com