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I NOTATION POLISH REVERSE ❤️
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Source: https://xkcd.com/3277/
this post was submitted on 27 Jul 2026
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They wasted ) to some shit. ( should have been push next word to X-stack and ) should have been pop and execute top of X-stack.
Then writing (+ m n) would be equal to m n + and (IF (< A B) (THEN C ELSE D))) would be identical to writing A B < IF C ELSE D THEN
But they also got rid of and avoiding CREATE’s extra writes.