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1. DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab (djsundog@toot-lab.reclaim.technology)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2018 20:50:43 EST DJ Sundog - from the toot-lab

   if the patriarchy taught using RPN calculators and notation you wouldn't have hecked up order of operations that one time. thank.

   1. aschmitz (aschmitz@ostatus.lardbucket.org)'s status on Friday, 26-Jan-2018 20:55:59 EST aschmitz

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      @djsundog I've honestly held this position for, uh, I guess upwards of a decade now? I'd be willing to accept prefix, too, but infix is Bad. Ignoring that operations are functions is bad. (I don't like the implied arities, though.)

      It simplifies so many things, even up through calculus. (A lot fewer special cases to memorize for derivatives once you realize that the chain rule applies to everything, etc.)