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From: sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: RPL fails miserably in compile
Message-ID: <14543@s.ms.uky.edu>
Date: 13 Mar 90 00:47:47 GMT
Organization: The Leaning Tower of Patterson Office @ The Univ. of KY
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When I first saw RPL, I thought "We have a working gcc, maybe I can
finally have me a good Reverse Polish Notation calculator."

I'll probably never know. RPL is one of the worst abuses of portability
I have ever seen. There are pointer mismatches *everywhere*, errno is
assumed to be defined by errno.h, and assumptions are made all over the
place as to the availability of include files and what path constants
are defined.

I gave up after 20 minutes of working on it. "rm -rf rpl".

Authos, *please* beta test your stuff before announcing "It will work."
and posting it to a zillion sites. I'll bet that 95% of the sites that
get RPL won't use it because it is so unportable.

Sean
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***  Sean Casey          sean@ms.uky.edu, sean@ukma.bitnet, ukma!sean
***  "Well, heck's farr, Jim, it gives mah computer sumthin' to do when
***  Ah'm out brandin' capacitors." -DM