From: Sean O'Halpin <sean.ohalpin@...>
Date: 2009-02-24T06:17:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Nexus Programming Language

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 8:21 PM, Eleanor McHugh
<eleanor@games-with-brains.com> wrote:
> But postfix notation is just so natural: load operands on the stack; operate
> on operands; get result from stack. Imagine how sweet Lisp would be without
> all those damn parentheses:

But like all obvious elegant simple things, it took someone really
smart working hard to figure it out. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Leonard_Hamblin, IMHO one of the
great unrecognised pioneers of computer science.

Regards,
Sean