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by agumonkey 1291 days ago
Sorry, I mistyped. I was thinking about HP42 and above RPL not the basic RPN. RPL is a blend of lisp idiom on top of good old stack based RPN (list, map, numerical tower). It goes so far that they even added quoted lambda expressions. You could push << a -> + a a >> on your stack.
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RPL is like LISP in that it's all about quoting. ' and eval are primary (unshifted) keys on these calculators.

There was a LISP based pocket computer: the Casio AI-1000:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-yuZ2pejGU