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EE Pros: Is RPN still relevant?

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artag:

--- Quote from: David Hess on March 03, 2017, 11:53:42 pm ---"Hey, can I borrow your calculator?"
"Sure, here you go."
*silence while calculator is inspected*
"Um, no thanks."

--- End quote ---

https://xkcd.com/1806/

w2aew:
...and one of the best reasons to use RPN calculator at work...  ..it will keep most people from borrowing your calculator.

xrunner:

--- Quote from: w2aew on March 05, 2017, 01:06:46 am ---...and one of the best reasons to use RPN calculator at work...  ..it will keep most people from borrowing your calculator.

--- End quote ---

 :clap:  :-+

David Hess:

--- Quote from: artag on March 05, 2017, 01:04:04 am ---
--- Quote from: David Hess on March 03, 2017, 11:53:42 pm ---"Hey, can I borrow your calculator?"
"Sure, here you go."
*silence while calculator is inspected*
"Um, no thanks."
--- End quote ---

https://xkcd.com/1806/
--- End quote ---

Haha, I've done that!

I used to rewire my keyboards to swap Caps Lock and Control so that the Control key is adjacent to the A key like God intended.  These days I install a driver or edit the registry to do the same thing because modifications to membrane keyboards are difficult but I suspect my next keyboard will have mechanical switches.

TNorthover:

--- Quote from: Benta on March 04, 2017, 10:12:48 pm ---@ orolo and TNorthover:

You're scaring people away from HP RPN calculators. Just sayin'   ::)

--- End quote ---

Not intentionally at all (I just have a weakness for discussing the foundations of maths). My primary calculator is actually an HP-48G. I think a reasonably competent human can use both schemes without diffficulty.

Where I think HP really excels is actually the programming language. Before I used Casio graphing calculators, and they use some kind of proprietary bastardised basic dialect. I've played with TI before too without being too impressed. Being able to write programs in terms of something remarkably close to lambda calculus is great!

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