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Posts Tagged ‘ Languages ’

Ambi – streamlined – loses SEQ operator

January 29, 2009

Ambi is proving to be a great extensible RPN calculator. Applying the ‘zen’ of RPN to programming fun! Enjoy the new release of Ambi. This week I have discovered that the seq operator is not necessary.  Initially, I thought that seq would be necessary, however it turns out that the other lambda operators are sufficient.  So...
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Reverse Polish Notation Language

January 7, 2009

I love RPN calculators.  My favorite is Hypatia which I use regularly for calculations.  I love being able to order my calculation to avoid brackets and being able to enter a list of numbers and add them up with a single command: hy 12 23.4 43 94 3 d SUMNow I am wondering about a...
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Fun with Monad?

April 25, 2006

Remember command.com and .bat files? Still using them? I recently downloaded Microsoft’s new command shell (available here). The key idea seems to be to make 99% of the internals of a MS Windows based computer accessible to a command shell. Whereas the Unix tradition of shells have commands linked together by consuming...
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