A case against the x<>y key
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05-11-2015, 12:24 AM
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RE: A case against the x<>y key
(05-10-2015 08:51 PM)Mark Hardman Wrote: IMHO, the key to success with the 4 level stack is thinking about how a particular expression should be solved. Rules that the Beginning User "Has to" or "Should" follow can cause more harm than good. Exactly! As I just commented, for the typical user in HP's target market for RPN - scientists and engineers - the expression being evaluated has meaning, and they will tend to evaluate it in the light of that meaning, rather than robotically from left to right as a not-very-bright parsing algorithm would do. --- Les [http://www.lesbell.com.au] |
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