vcbdcgdg

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   by vcbdcgdg 7y ago

   If you watch MIT's CS 101 class on their OpenCourseWare (the one filmed in the 80s) you'll see Sussman and Abelson teaching scheme to a class full of electrical engineers from HP. I think these are guys are the guys who designed R
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   by vcbdcgdg 7y ago

   "I miss RPN on my calculator." I'm about to bite the bullet and buy a 48GX to replace my G which has annoying buttons (My original G+ died when I got caught walking home in the rain). $200 for a used 20 year old calculator. &
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   by vcbdcgdg 7y ago

   I have a question, if you don't mind: I have a stopwatch function in my HP48 that I don't want using a local variable (avoid polluting my precious menu), or having to keep it in a stack. Instead I want the value of the last time I
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   by vcbdcgdg 7y ago

   That's actually another difference, although I think its small: Scheme allows multiple arguments, RPL cannot. I.e. (+ 1 2 3 ) evals to 6, 1 2 3 + evals to 1 5 RPL cant add your entire stack because presumably you have stuff in your sta
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   by vcbdcgdg 7y ago

   Just in the last few days I've been playing around with my HP48 and wondering how close to a reverse scheme with no brackets RPL is. I figured the only real difference is that scheme has list of lists, but you can't have a stack o