In message <mailman.1928.1245616909.8015.python-l...@python.org>, Phil Runciman wrote:
> What I can say is that for scientific/engineering calculations the RPN of > KDF9 was Great because assembler was no harder than using algol60 for the > calculations part of the problems I worked on. Unfortunately, we had to learn the hard way that machine instruction sets must be designed for efficiency of execution, not ease of use by humans. Stack-based architectures, for all their charm, cannot match register-based ones in this regard. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
