Re: The (sad) future of RPN? Message #2 Posted by Reinhard Hawel on 1 Feb 2000, 9:37 p.m., in response to message #1 by Menno
I got used to RPN with my 48SX. I used a HP-71B before (a non RPN machine) and it was great too.
I had earned some practice in FORTH before (does anybody of you youngsters know this great, but old language ? :-) )
So I really didn't have a problem switching to RPN on the 48. I never got used to it on the 41, because I would miss the infinite nimber of stack levels (I throw anything onto the stack, even intermediate results).
Programming RPN progs on a 41 might be easy, because you might have the time to think abt. the stack contents while programming.
I could never get used to 4 stack levels during "normal" calculations.
Just my 2 cents
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