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I've been a senior developer for almost a decade now. I've never heard of RPN. Not everyone took the same classes you did, get off your high-horse.
by Carrok 12y ago
I've been a senior developer for almost a decade now. I've never heard of RPN. Not everyone took the same classes you did, get off your high-horse.
- blahedo 12y agoYou could certainly be a software developer, and a reasonably competent one, without having heard of RPN. I would argue that it's harder to be a computer scientist---and shocking to manage to get to the PhD level in computer science---without having at least a little exposure to RPN: it's a classic example of stack manipulation and has important theoretical relevance to programming language theory and compiler design.
- yebyen 12y agoWhile it is true that for every thing that anyone says "everyone knows" at any given time in the world, 250 people are being born every minute on average. I think you know where I'm going... those people don't know anything, so it's clear that some much larger fraction of the general population don't know that thing. I am personally doubly surprised as GP to find two people in a discussion about Computer Science at a college level that have not heard of RPN before. For what it's worth!
- sleepychu 12y agoDoes the expansion of the initialisation help? Reverse Polish Notation.
- jacquesm 12y agoHe was talking about college level CS instructors, not about developers, senior or otherwise.
- xorcist 12y agoIf you have taken engineering at a college level you probably least bumped into a handheld HP calculator at least once. If you have taken an introduction to the Unix/Linux shell, you most probably saw the dc command.