PostFix: A Simple Stack Language

#1 08-27-2008, 07:50 AM

I thought folks here might be interested in the book: "Design Concepts
in Programming Languages" by Franklyn A. Turbak and David K. Gifford,
which uses a stack-based language for its examples. From the
introduction:

"We will introduce the tools for syntax, semantics, and pragmatics in
the context
of a mini-language called PostFix. PostFix is a simple stack-based
language
inspired by the PostScript graphics language, the Forth programming
lan-
guage, and Hewlett Packard calculators. Here we give an informal
introduction
to PostFix in order to build some intuitions about the language. In
subsequent
chapters, we will introduce tools that allow us to study PostFix in
more depth."

<http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11656>

Best, Charles

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