RPN Ever 4 - Hackdot

Re:RPN Ever 4 by shubber on Thursday February 03, 2011 @02:03PM (#2176189)

Funniest thing is "RPN sounds like a joke" - like they're discovering it for the first time. Isn't RPN the next chapter after hexadecimal in The Short Course for Computer Geeks?

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Re:RPN Ever 4 by burgerbrain on Thursday February 03, 2011 @02:19PM (#2176281)

Seriously, RPN was freshman year stuff for me. Did all the schools somehow ditch the classic "write a calculator" assignment?

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Re:RPN Ever 4 by el_chapitan on Thursday February 03, 2011 @05:17PM (#2177175)

I recall learning prefix before I learned RPN. Then again, our teaching language was scheme. Writing an RPN calculator was one of the first homework assignments, though.

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Re:RPN Ever 4 by sstephenson on Thursday February 03, 2011 @02:17PM (#2176275)

Not everyone at 37signals is a programmer.

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Re:RPN Ever 4 by shubber on Thursday February 03, 2011 @03:13PM (#2176565)

Neither is every geek, but fair point.

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Re:RPN Ever 4 by joezydeco on Thursday February 03, 2011 @06:56PM (#2177603)

It's a good introduction to stack-based programming and yeah, it's normally brought out early in CS classes (or used to be).

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