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Excerpted without comment: It runs on an unconventional operating system called "Reverse Polish Notation," Now I need to go and dig up my 15c
by ubasu 15y ago
Excerpted without comment:
It runs on an unconventional operating system called "Reverse Polish Notation,"
Now I need to go and dig up my 15c
- monochromatic 15y agoAlso, "H-P"
- andymoe 15y agohttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_Polish_notation 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 http://www.advent.com
- lukifer 15y agoIronically, the usage would have been valid as a non-compound term if it had been describing the person rather than the device: To use the calculator, one must adopt an unconventional operating system called "Reverse Polish Notation".