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   Message 2,157 of 2,753   
   Hans-Peter Diettrich to Alex McDonald   
   Re: Have we reached the asymptotic plate   
   11 Jun 12 18:18:52   
   
   From: DrDiettrich1@aol.com   
      
   Alex McDonald schrieb:   
      
   >> For an Arabic programming language, all bets are off.   
   >   
   >    ! c + b a   
   >   
   > My first example reversed. The arity of the operators make it easy to   
   > parse left to right too; "Store in c the sum of a and b". It would be   
   > a trivial modification to a stack-based compiler to parse right to   
   > left.   
      
   Note: even Arabic text is *stored* in low-to-high address order, so   
   that there is no need for reverse parsing. It's only the GUI that   
   flips the strings and their horizontal alignments.   
      
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