My first professional job was writing FORTH for fruit machines. I'd played with it a bit before on the Jupiter Ace we had which sadly never really took off despite being more elegant than the ZX81.

bacon_pdp@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 33d

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DmMacniel@feddit.org · 3 pts · 32d

Who needs PEMDAS when you have RPN :)

hayvan@piefed.world · 3 pts · 33d (3 replies)

RPN breaks my brain, I need to refresh myself.

psycotica0@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 32d (2 replies)

3
3 5
3 5 8
3 5 8 +
3 13
3 13 2
3 13 2 *
3 26
3 26 17
3 26 17 36
3 26 17 36 9
3 26 17 36 9 /
3 26 17 4
3 26 17 4 - 
3 26 13
3 26 13 +
3 39
3 39 +
42

3 + (((5 + 8) * 2) + (17 - (36 / 9)))

psycotica0@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 32d (1 reply)

To be fair, my example was illustrative. The equivalent would simply be:

3 5 8 + 2 * 17 36 9 / - + +

hayvan@piefed.world · 1 pts · 32d

Thanks.