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by tsegratis 1932 days ago
Since RPN is front page, let me note that Turkish can be viewed as an RPN language -- the verb comes at the end

(although agglutination etc make it not quite so clear cut)

The agglutination is very similar to properties on structs

object.time.by.ability.duration

Except that there is a fixed standard order, and every object (word) responds in the same way. -- Very similar to an inheritance hierarchy from a single object :)

A difference would be that every subclass a.k.a word has a meaningful way to respond to the dimensions of duration, ability, startPoint, byWho, and a few others that are not easily expressible in English but very convenient

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Bangla also is a subject-object-verb language and I hadn’t thought of it like RPN before!