[Haskell-cafe] question regarding the $ apply operator

Ivan Lazar Miljenovic ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com
Tue Jul 19 13:45:11 CEST 2011


On 19 July 2011 09:51, Maciej Marcin Piechotka <uzytkownik2 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 07:11 +0000, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
>> The only thing that I can think of that matches this is Reverse Polish
>> Notation, and according to Wikipedia was about 90 years ago, not
>> hundreds ;-)
>>
>
> I may be wrong but weren't the RPN calculator slightly later then 90
> years ago? In any case according to wikipedia RPN was proposed in 1954
> so less then 60 years ago. (PN on the other hand was found around 90
> years ago).

You're right; I mis-read the wikipedia article whilst skimming it.

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