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Re:Java in College: "You might as well be teaching Chinese t... by talboito on Saturday December 20, 2008 @02:58AM (#404398)
One of the things that complicates Scheme for many beginners is the prefix notation for arithmetic and such.

It's just not a concept most Freshmen are acquainted with.

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Re:Java in College: "You might as well be teaching Chinese t... by khafra on Monday December 22, 2008 @11:12AM (#406485)
I dunno--I started community college with an HP-48 instead of a TI calculator, and reverse polish notation wasn't a problem at all once the friend who'd convinced me to get one explained how the stack was like the way you do arithmetic on paper.
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