>Okay - I bookmarked for future reference (have some XSS issues coming up), but, the author referred to "Hungarian" notation. I have also heard reference to "reverse Polish notation" (BAL and CPM).
Reverse Polish notation is used in calculators: first you store the numbers, then you speficy the operations.
In the usual scientific calculator, you would type:
1 + 2 =
and get the answer, 3.
In RPN, you would type something like:
1 ENTER 2 +
There is a special ENTER key, that pushes the numbers onto a stack.
I read somewhere that RPN calculators are easier to program; this may explain why older calculators use RPN. Also, I believe that once you get used to them, it is difficult to get accustomed to the algebraic kind - in my case, the reverse is true.
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