advantages of RPN

[Garth Wilson]

Related: Low Fat Computing: A politically incorrect essay by Jeff Fox 12/6/98. He, working with Chuck Moore, the inventor of Forth, used Forth hardware and software to improve the compactness and speed of code by anywhere from 100 to 1000 times. (Forth uses RPN, by the way.) Toward the end, he says,

Quote:The computer industry is basically a shell game of marketing fat. [...] For many years I was a consultant to Bank of America and Pacific Bell and published articles in PC World and ComputerWorld. [...] I just object to the ethics of an entire industry that adds fat to products and markets fat to increase profit margins.