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My first and only encounter with "Concatenative Languages" was programming the HP48GX[1] graphing calculator in highschool. Thinking back to it, I'm amazed by what you could do with it. It was very powerful even by today's standards. Whereas other kids had Gameboys, I had an "HP". I even got in trouble playing tetris on it during my German language class. My calculus teacher never knew that you could do symbolic integrals and derivatives with it (using a free computer algebra library). Sadly, the only program of note that I wrote for it was an implementation of the The Game of Life[2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HP-48_series [2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life




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