Re: Programming skills required by mathematicians?

Herman Rubin wrote:

> RPN is moderately easy to write, and is my choice for
> a calculator.  I am less fond of the stack idea of
> Forth for a computer.  I do know how to juggle registers,
> and providing the appropriate information for a machine
> which offers many registers is quite different from doing
> good programming on a stack machine.

FORTH has been my choice once, only for the reason that it can run on
very, very small machines:

http://hdebruijn.soo.dto.tudelft.nl/www/muziek/midicode.htm

But for the rest, FORTH is a truly _dreadful_ programming language, as
all stack oriented languages; PostScript is another terrible example.
The reason is that data stacks are always, yes: always, in wrong order.

Han de Bruijn