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Re: Anyone want to design a language?

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From: John Gateley
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 1990 21:04
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In article <10979@saturn.ADS.COM> xanthian@saturn.ADS.COM (Metafont Consultant Account) writes:
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>Better, make the language strictly postfix, give it exactly one

So, why is postfix better than prefix? 
One other poster mentioned postfix, and made the claim that it
was better than prefix as well, and I am curious why
y'all think so. (i'd take postfix over infix any day, but prefer
prefix because I am used to it).

John
gateley@m2.csc.ti.com
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Subject: Re: Anyone want to design a language?
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