Re: Programming skills required by mathematicians?

aruzinsky <aruzinsky@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> writes:

> For mental exercise and development, I recommend learning Forth which
> uses Reverse Polish Notation (RPN), i.e. operands precede operators,
> as in reality.  Forth and RPN foster efficient programming and
> utilization of RAM. Standard Forth does not use floating point, but
> Forth can be modified to do anything because it is easily extensible.
> Some modified versions directly use the PC FPU stack very efficiently.

Standard Forth does use floating point (though it is optional), and
there's trend to make separate FPN stack mandatory in newer standard.


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