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From: dwp@willett.UUCP (Doug Philips)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Anyone want to design a language?
Message-ID: <552.UUL1.3#5129@willett.UUCP>
Date: 25 Feb 90 01:14:23 GMT
References: <11864@nigel.udel.EDU>
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In <11864@nigel.udel.EDU>, new@udel.edu (Darren New) writes:
[Brief discussion of simplicity of post-fix over pre-fix.]
>                                            In postfix, the evaluated
> arguments come first and the non-evaluated arguments come afterwards.
PostScript is an even cleaner (i.e. more postfix) language that Forth.
All you need is a simple way of 'not-eval'ing a word.  PostScript has
'/foo' which means to push the symbol 'foo', '(asdf)' which is a string
literal, and '{'/'}' which delimits code bodies whose address is pushed
onto the stack.  T'would be nice to avoid any kind of prefixing at all,
but I don't yet see a way around it.

		-Doug

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