From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <zznmeb@...>
Date: 2009-03-01T00:25:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Nexus Programming Language

In the beginning (1920s / 1930s) there was one notation, with
parentheses. We now call that infix, but I don't think it had a name
because it was the only notation anybody used. Then Lukaciewicz
invented Lukaciewicz notation, which was a prefix notation -- operator
followed by operands. Nobody could spell or pronounce his name, so it
became known as Polish notation because he was Polish. It was still
prefix and not widely used until the early days of programming
language.

Then came reverse Polish or postfix notation. So now we have three notations:

Polish, aka prefix
Reverse Polish, aka postfix
normal, aka infix


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M. Edward (Ed) Borasky
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