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From: Kevin Wampler
Date: 6 Oct 2009 13:12:16
Message: <4acb7a70$1@news.povray.org>
Invisible wrote:
>>> Look up "reverse Polish list".
>>
>> Or Reverse Polish Notation.
> 
> Actually, DJ used to refer to it as "Polish reversed lists", but 
> whatever. ;-)
> 
> Man, if it weren't for that guy, *I* wouldn't understand this joke 
> either...


Who's DJ?  Also, I think reverse polish notation is the correct name for 
the postfix method of operator placement, and reverse polish LISP is 
rather the name for the programming language on HP calculators which 
used this notation (the calculators are stack-based).


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