Re: Sliderules, Logs, and Prodigies

[Derek Bell <dbell@maths.tcd.ie>]

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In message <v03007803aea873ff3acc@[207.167.93.63]>, "Timothy C. May" writes:
>Lucaciewicz, as I recall. His notation was originally that one would add
>two numbers, a and b, as "+ a b." A modified form, adapted for stack
>machines, was to add two numbers with "a b +." Hence, _reverse_ Polish
>notation, but equally sound.

	He also did some work on multi-valued logic, IIRC.

>And for those of you are not LISP or Scheme fans, the language FORTH also
>uses Polish notation. RPN, in fact.

	Yep, FORTH uses it for everything, including IF statements!

	e.g.
	< IF ." The Second on stack is smaller than Top Of Stack"  THEN

	Derek

http://www.maths.tcd.ie/~dbell/key.asc <- my public key here
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