Is RPN still relevant?

[Namir]

In the late 70s RPN (and AOS) were the only game in town. BASIC found it's way on handheld pocket computers and of course PCs. Then came Turbo Pascal and many folks, like myself, went from programming legacy (spaghetti) BASIC to structured programming in Pascal (and some in C) and even structure Basic programming like QBasic. Then C++ came and many folks went OOP!

Today I write only short RPN programs. I like to code in Excel VBA, Matlab, PPL (HP Prime being a very capable machine) and other languages like R, Python, and Ruby.

Readability of code is really important. RPN (and RPL) do not get the Nobel Prize in code readability. We like algebraic code, especially the ones that support vector/matrix operations (like Matlab, and HP Prime, just to name a few) since they get loops out of the way and add more clarity and compatibility between matrix/vector mathematical expressions and comparable source code.

Namir