Well, I answered this off-list, but Derek's put it back on, so I'll give one quick reply ...
[pause for cheering to die down] ...and stop. On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 13:19 +0100, Derek M Jones wrote: > >> Ah, ok. I didn't know I was talking to one of 'those people'. > > > >This'll be good: 'those people'? Keep score, Derek; see how well you did. :-) > Like Abba. I music so much that I spent the last three years studying it at university. Abba's pretty good for pop, but I have way more Philip Glass, Ella Fitzgerald, Beethoven and Jerry Goldsmith in my CD collection than Abba. I even have more Iannis Xenakis and Wynton Marsalis. > Wear pocket protectors. Nope, never. I just buy reliable pens that don't leak. > Think that the VCR codes for TV progams should be given in hex. Now you're being silly; I prefer to pick programmes from the on-screen schedule. > Claims that anybody who dislikes RPN is not numerate. Well, I have never claimed that; I said that RPN *depends* on its users being numerate, which is quite different. Numerate users are still free to dislike it as much as anyone. > RPN is a good example of it being possible for a reasonably > homogeneous group of people (ie, engineers) Engineers homogeneous? You need to get out more. > to be split into two groups; those who love it and those > who would only use it if forced to. Hmm, a binary choice. Interesting. Anyway, bizarrely enough, the design of programmable calculators and their languages is actually on-topic for PPIG discuss, so I'm going to take the opportunity to plug a book I worked on that contains a bunch of information about how calculators were designed, and how people used them: http://www.limov.com/rcl20 You can even read how my life was changed by them, if you're really at a loose end: http://www.limov.com/rcl20/chapter.lml Okay, plug over; I now return you to your irregularly scheduled exchange of varyingly-considered opinions while I go off to the PPIG dinner for fun and eats. -- Frank Wales [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- PPIG Discuss List ([email protected]) Discuss admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/discuss Announce admin: http://limitlessmail.net/mailman/listinfo/announce PPIG Discuss archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/discuss%40ppig.org/
