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>you cannot trust your own sense of what is inherently easier to read, it will be biased by experience. Funny you should say that, when basically every person
by SomeCallMeTim 11y ago
>you cannot trust your own sense of what is inherently easier to read, it will be biased by experience.
Funny you should say that, when basically every person in the world going through a basic mathematics curriculum will be experienced with infix notation, and completely unfamiliar with RPN.
True, maybe you for some reason have more experience with RPN. So use Forth.
But there is a clearly superior notation when you're talking about "which one will most people understand." HP calculators notwithstanding.
- sklogic 11y agoI find it amusing that arithmetics is always invoked in any discussion about nested expressions syntax, despite being largely unimportant in most of the typical code scenarios.
- SomeCallMeTim 11y agoI used an arithmetic example, but since everything in Forth is just "words", it all reads the same.
- sklogic 11y agoAnd it is much closer to plain English than all that too nested languages. And most of the code must be like English, not like arithmetic expressions.
- SomeCallMeTim 11y agoPlain English is hardly succinct and precise either. Repeat after me: "There is no silver bullet." There, that wasn't so hard.
- sklogic 11y ago> Plain English is hardly succinct and precise either. But so far it's the best form of communication we've got.