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Newer page: version 8 Last edited on Saturday, November 1, 2003 3:22:25 pm by JohnMcPherson
Older page: version 7 Last edited on Saturday, November 1, 2003 2:28:56 pm by AristotlePagaltzis Revert
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 In Reverse Polish, or __postfix__, notation you write the operator after the arguments. 
  
  c 5 a + x + b * - 
  
-It's very easy to interpret expressions in this notation, you need just a single stack to place intermediate values on, this is why [Forth] uses it. 
+It's very easy to interpret expressions in this notation, you need just a single stack to place intermediate values on, this is why [Forth] and PostScript (which was based on Forth?) use it. 
  
 !!!Polish 
  
 In Polish, or __prefix__, notation you write the operator before the arguments.