Wicke's RPL paper in Journal of Applied Forth Research?

[jebem]

(09-04-2014 06:33 PM)aurelio Wrote:  

(09-04-2014 06:02 PM)jebem Wrote:  A little bit off topic perhaps, but the Aug-1987 HP Journal covers the HP-28C/S and also explains why RPL was chosen:

The HP-28C firmware was developed in a year by a small
team using the RPL operating system and language (see the
article on page 21). The use of a highly structured language
was necessary for the implementation of symbolic mathe
matics, but also yielded a significant increase in productiv
ity compared with previous products, which were coded
entirely in assembly language.

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