Why not Processing or P5.js?

Writing RPL on my HP48 as a young teenager influenced the way I thought about programming significantly. RPL IMO is underrated as an educational tool. It introduces the stack based concept, but also the "everything is an object" concept. As a useful language I'm not sure, but it was definitely fun to think about.

I really love Forth and spend almost all my free programming time playing with it and I'd never teach it to a class of kids.

• rbanffy

  today at 9:58 PM

  My kid was curious about my HP-35 and I taught them how it works. They got it in no time and I made it an exercise to rewrite math expressions in RPN.

  Not sure they are that interested in programming, but FORTH is a little sweet language.

  My first experience with it was Paul Lutus’ GraFORTH. On the Apple II it was ridiculously fast.

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• beyonddream

  today at 9:58 PM

  Why ?

  • Loughla

    today at 11:05 PM

    I'm betting the mask and pronouns. Because no one can do anything anymore, even if that thing has zero impact on anyone else, without having their mental fitness attacked.