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|    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.              DoDi              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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