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A place for people in the UK, near the UK, visiting the UK, planning to visit the UK or just vaguely interested to randomly chat about things (often vi and emacs, occasionally clojure). More general the #ldnclj
jiriknesl 2020-12-13T06:04:19.171700Z
Maybe. The only experience I have with RPN is some coding dojo, where we were implementing something like Excel and the trick was converting all expressions in cells into RPN before evaluation.
2020-12-13T07:28:51.176200Z
I recently learned that the classic 80s computer game Starflight was written in a strange dialect of Forth. That, for me, is the coolest use of the language and was almost enough to motivate me to learn it.
2020-12-14T09:04:59.178500Z
IIRC there's really not much to Forth; except that its entirely stack based; you have a very limited number of named variables, all functions expect you to have previously pushed their parameters onto the global stack; from where they will will pop them and then push their results.
2020-12-14T09:05:04.178700Z
Thats it
2020-12-13T07:30:09.177500Z
I heard quite a lot about Factor ten years or so ago (I have a vague recollection that Slava Pestov used to hang out on the old Clojure mailing list but might be wrong) and that might be an easier way to get into a stack-based language these days.
thomas 2020-12-13T13:47:52.177700Z
morning