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Re:The Art of Lisp and Writing by kazinator on Friday June 20, 2025 @01:53AM (#44325080)
Even if we don't think about stacks, but just the raw data dependency: before we can perform an operation, we need to determine its operands.

So if we translate that sequence to language, stating the operands before the operation does follow the non-negotiable evaluation data flow.

Re:The Art of Lisp and Writing by quantadev on Friday June 20, 2025 @10:54AM (#44328305)
That's why we have interpreters and compilers: So we can make code easier to read. FORTRAN was originally invented as a way to let humans think in terms of parenthetical groupings for math and functions, specifically to _avoid_ reasoning in an RPN way.
Re:The Art of Lisp and Writing by pklausler on Friday June 20, 2025 @07:09PM (#44332957)
What programming systems used RPN prior to 1957?
Re:The Art of Lisp and Writing by quantadev on Friday June 20, 2025 @09:34PM (#44333766)
Doing ASM ~ "RPN reasoning".