From: Brian Adkins Date: 2009-02-25T13:40:03+09:00 Subject: Re: Nexus Programming Language "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" writes: > On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 11:57 PM, Martin DeMello > wrote: >> On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 8:42 AM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky >> wrote: >>> >>> But yeah, who the heck needs another language that's poorly thought out, >>> when Factor, Joy, Eiffel, Dylan, and dozens of other well-thought-out >>> languages burst on the scene and drifted into oblivion? And why not >>> Fortress? >> >> I think Joy, at least, is *influential* - language designers seem to >> pay attention to it, even if users don't. > > Joy and Factor are essentially dialects of Forth that attempt to add > some elegance and a functional language perspective. IMHO neither one > of them is as elegant and practical as the RPL language HP put into > the HP-28, 48 and 49 calculators. If you're going to make a reverse > Polish language, RPL is the way to do it. Ah, what memories :) I still have my HP-48SX and 2 volume programming manual, what a great machine. As an undergrad in a numerical analysis class, the prof said we could use any language we wanted for a particular assignment (multiple linear regression?), so I asked if I could use the HP-48SX, and he said sure. It was a blast to crank out on that calculator, and I'm pretty sure it was a fraction of the size of all the submissions. -- Brian Adkins http://www.lojic.com/