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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 f
by shubber 16y ago
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?
New tech interview question:
1 2 + 3 * 4 - 5 / =
- sstephenson 16y agoNot everyone at 37signals is a programmer.
- shubber 16y agoNeither is every geek, but fair point.
- burgerbrain 16y agoSeriously, RPN was freshman year stuff for me. Did all the schools somehow ditch the classic "write a calculator" assignment?
- el_chapitan 16y agoI 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.
- joezydeco 16y agoIt's a good introduction to stack-based programming and yeah, it's normally brought out early in CS classes (or used to be). 1 2 3 4 5 + / - * = ...
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