Can we have RPN back?

[Tim Wessman]

(02-10-2014 10:14 PM)John R. Graham Wrote:  That's interesting. The official HP 48gII / 49g+ / 50g user's guides and advanced reference documents were not authored by HP employees?

It was long before my time at HP, but Dr Urroz was contracted to make the user guides based on his books ( http://www.neng.usu.edu/cee/faculty/gurro/myBooks.htm ). That is why there are such similarities between them in so many parts.

I believe a similar thing happened with the AUR.

When you no longer have internal technical writers sitting next to the engineers building the products (which hasn't been that way since mid/early 90s I think), the common conventions used by customers will most likely end up creeping in and really wouldn't reflect internal policy shifts or anything like that. As far as I can tell, HP internally has considered anything to have "backwards" input as RPN since forever and the only people making a huge fuss over it are end users wanting to distinguish between 4 level, 4 level with command line, RPL, etc.