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Re: [OM] Godspeed, Neil Armstrong--now sliderule/calculators

Subject: Re: [OM] Godspeed, Neil Armstrong--now sliderule/calculators
From: Moose <olymoose@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2016 13:54:29 -0700
On 8/28/2012 6:53 PM, Chuck Norcutt wrote:
Just count Chuck as an outlier.  Chuck's mathematical notation brain had
been pre-shaped by many years of programming with APL
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_%28programming_language%29> long
before encountering RPN.

Yup, although in my case, Algol, Fortran and Basic. I learned to do RPN, but 
never really took to it.

Nowadays, I'm more likely to pop up a spreadsheet.

Straight, and Not Polish(ed) Moose

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