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Re:Wall Street's Cult Calculator Turns 30 by andymoe on Wednesday May 04, 2011 @12:08AM (#2512768)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_Polish_notation

It's not as fun as it sounds. Advent Axys, a portfolio management system I used to work with, has a whole reporting language called RepLang that uses notation like this.

Fun fact: Advent Software[1] was the second largest software company in San Francisco as of 2007 - not sure if that's still the case.

[1] http://www.advent.com

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