Should I Learn Python or Ruby next?

Terry Reedy tjreedy at udel.edu
Wed Jun 23 15:20:14 EDT 2010


On 6/23/2010 1:39 AM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Tue, 22 Jun 2010 15:55:51 -0700, Stephen Hansen
> <me+list/python at ixokai.io>  declaimed the following in
> gmane.comp.python.general:
>
>> I second Forth. Learning and using that was -- slightly painful, but
>
> 	Just pick up any advanced HP programmable calculator... RPL is a
> close substitute<G>

Or study the current CPython rpn stack machine.

 >>> from dis import dis

 >>> def f(a,b,c): return (a+b)*c

 >>> dis(f)
   1           0 LOAD_FAST                0 (a)
               3 LOAD_FAST                1 (b)
               6 BINARY_ADD
               7 LOAD_FAST                2 (c)
              10 BINARY_MULTIPLY
              11 RETURN_VALUE


-- 
Terry Jan Reedy




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