I have fond memories of RPL on the HP48 calculators where you would give arguments as a stack, then call the function.
Something like (a+b)*c could be written
C A B + *
Such fun!
Its weird syntax prepared us well to face the horror of assembly language later on, so I have a certain fondness for it. That and I had absolutely no point of comparison at the time, haha!
Then there’s Haskell where arguments to a function are given with spaces
I have fond memories of RPL on the HP48 calculators where you would give arguments as a stack, then call the function. Something like (a+b)*c could be written C A B + * Such fun!
Reverse Polish notation, right? Operand operand operator?
That’s the one. The Wikipedia article has some extensive examples, too.
Its weird syntax prepared us well to face the horror of assembly language later on, so I have a certain fondness for it. That and I had absolutely no point of comparison at the time, haha!
It makes sense if you just think of everything as a function.