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No sign of RPL, which is insanely expressive :(

• dsberkholz 14y ago
  Right, I did restrict languages to a popular subset defined in another post: http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2013/02/28/language-rankings-1-13/ http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2013/02/28/language-rankings-1-13...
• bjterry 14y ago
  Are you referring to the programming language for calculators? Wikipedia doesn't make it seem that expressive, and I can't find much else associated with the acronym RPL.
  • hp50g 14y ago
    Yes. The Wikipedia article is to be honest, crap. RPL is a functional stack based language sort of like lisp and forth combined with mathematica thrown in for good measure. Its both compiled and interpreted and a system language and a user language. Couple of examples: 'X=Y^2' 'Y' SOLVE 149 'X' STO EVAL @evaluate first expr for Y=149 .. Including optimising it by rearranging it { "a" "b" "c" } SORT REVLIST << "M" + >> MAP @sort then reverse then add M string to every list item using anonymous function and map. Storage is entirely transparent and persistent as well. Quite my favourite language these days. I can actually do real work with it and it runs in my pocket on a 75MHz ARM (which is more than enough for it), has built in context sensitive help, a debugger that even puts gdb to shame and has 2Gb of persistent storage and lasts a month on 4 NiMh eneloop AAA's. All for £79 :) It also doesn't have any distractions like the internet.