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by drpixie 1113 days ago
I love RPN for calculating - I still regularly use a HP11C (Swiss Micros replica).

But I hate coding or reading prefix (list) or postfix (rpn, forth, etc) languages. Once wrote a substantial project is Postscript - works fine but note easy on the brain.

Guess it comes from just too much familiarity with infix notation!

2 comments

I personally find prefix and RP notations to be pretty easy to read, but writing is harder for me. I've introduced bugs into FORTH programs because I did a + b instead of a b + out of habit. I think both notations have their place and not everyone will be able to make the switch
There are Lisp macros that allow writing infix arithmetics. Even fe is said to support macros.