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la rab.spir. cusku di'e > [1] HP49 Basic is a programming language for the HP49 calculator which > serves no purpose except to mollify people who want to program the > calculator yet have a morbid fear of Reverse Polish Notation. It is the > same as the calculator's RPN language, except rewritten with functions, > parentheses, and infix operators, with some arbitrary notation added on > to fake the existence of a stack. I am reminded of this by Thinkit's > after-the-fact "parentheses". I once thought about implementing a "reverse polish" loglan which would be more or less isomorphic to lojban, i.e. all terminators and scope-marking would be implicit in the structure of the grammar *without* using explicit words. There was an exchange on alt.language.artificial which was forwarded to the lojban list a while ago (see http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=krji1t8dhms8k8tuk5562nn7gk5rj7lh0 d%404ax.com ), and though lojbab claims that lojban fits the bill, it's terminators are spoken punctuation marks, I think. I unfortunately haven't had much time to develop it. mu'o mi'e .adam.