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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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On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:08:50 -0700, Kevin Wampler <wam### [at] u washingtonedu>
wrote:
>Invisible wrote:
>> Roman Reiner wrote:
>>
>>> I don't get it :/
>>
>> Look up "reverse Polish list".
>
>I've always heard it as reverse polish LISP...
LISP is something new?
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Stephen
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>> Actually, DJ used to refer to it as "Polish reversed lists", but
>> whatever. ;-)
>
> DJ??
David Jones. (Yes, that was his name.) Today we'd probably all call him
Davy Jones. Which would probably puzzle the hell out of him.
He was one of the lecturers at college. If you want to know about the
binomial theorum, or Dikjstra's shunting algorithm, or DeMorgan's
theorum, or the vector cross product, this guy can tell you everything
it is humanly possible to know, and how to apply it to any imaginable
mathematical problem. Try to explain to him that you're taking down the
B/W posters to replace them with colour versions of the same posters,
and he looks at you like "wait... what?" Very strange.
>> Man, if it weren't for that guy, *I* wouldn't understand this joke either...
>
> It is not very common
Possibly not. Unless - like me - you build expression parsers just for
giggles...
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On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 19:07:25 +0100, Orchid XP v8 <voi### [at] devnull> wrote:
>> DJ??
>
>David Jones. (Yes, that was his name.) Today we'd probably all call him
>Davy Jones.
Or Bowie. I once met someone who knew him as Davie Jones.
>
>He was one of the lecturers at college. If you want to know about the
>binomial theorum, or Dikjstra's shunting algorithm, or DeMorgan's
>theorum, or the vector cross product, this guy can tell you everything
>it is humanly possible to know, and how to apply it to any imaginable
>mathematical problem. Try to explain to him that you're taking down the
>B/W posters to replace them with colour versions of the same posters,
>and he looks at you like "wait... what?" Very strange.
>
>>> Man, if it weren't for that guy, *I* wouldn't understand this joke either...
>>
>> It is not very common
>
>Possibly not. Unless - like me - you build expression parsers just for
>giggles...
Woosh LOL
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Stephen
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Stephen wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 10:08:50 -0700, Kevin Wampler <wam### [at] uwashingtonedu>
> wrote:
>
>> Invisible wrote:
>>> Roman Reiner wrote:
>>>
>>>> I don't get it :/
>>> Look up "reverse Polish list".
>> I've always heard it as reverse polish LISP...
>
> LISP is something new?
Huh? No... but somehow I have the feeling that something's going over my
head here.
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On Tue, 06 Oct 2009 11:22:15 -0700, Kevin Wampler <wam### [at] uwashingtonedu>
wrote:
>> LISP is something new?
>
>Huh? No... but somehow I have the feeling that something's going over my
>head here.
I'm joshing :P
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Stephen
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Orchid XP v8 schrieb:
> David Jones. (Yes, that was his name.) Today we'd probably all call him
> Davy Jones. Which would probably puzzle the hell out of him.
>
> He was one of the lecturers at college.
Wait - is that "David Jones" as in "David E.H. Jones", aka "Daedalus"?
When I was a kid, there was a kind of scientific quiz show on German TV
where a school class would compete with their (non-natural-science)
teachers to explain entertaining physical (or sometimes chemical)
experiments. That David Jones guy was a regular guest "experimentor" on
the show (spoke quite a good German, except for his notoriously hoarse
voice).
As "Daedalus", he also wrote about some "crazy" ideas that stuck in my
mind, such as the "anti-greenhouse".
> If you want to know about the
> binomial theorum, or Dikjstra's shunting algorithm, or DeMorgan's
> theorum, or the vector cross product, this guy can tell you everything
> it is humanly possible to know, and how to apply it to any imaginable
> mathematical problem. Try to explain to him that you're taking down the
> B/W posters to replace them with colour versions of the same posters,
> and he looks at you like "wait... what?" Very strange.
Could be that guy... an amazing "practical genius" if I'm asked.
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On 6-10-2009 20:07, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
>Dikjstra's shunting algorithm
Why don't you learn that Dijkstra is with an 'ij' that is a single vowel
in Dutch and actually should be a ligature in print, but this is just
another example of how the Americans have destroyed a culture.
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andrel wrote:
> another example of how the Americans have destroyed a culture.
Hey, you want to be able to spell properly, *you* invent computers. ;-)
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I ordered stamps from Zazzle that read "Place Stamp Here".
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On 6-10-2009 22:38, Darren New wrote:
> andrel wrote:
>> another example of how the Americans have destroyed a culture.
>
> Hey, you want to be able to spell properly, *you* invent computers. ;-)
I assume you meant 'a character set' in stead of 'computers'?
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