sean@ms.uky.edu (Sean Casey) (03/13/90)
When I first saw RPL, I thought "We have a working gcc, maybe I can finally have me a good Reverse Polish Notation calculator." I'll probably never know. RPL is one of the worst abuses of portability I have ever seen. There are pointer mismatches *everywhere*, errno is assumed to be defined by errno.h, and assumptions are made all over the place as to the availability of include files and what path constants are defined. I gave up after 20 minutes of working on it. "rm -rf rpl". Authos, *please* beta test your stuff before announcing "It will work." and posting it to a zillion sites. I'll bet that 95% of the sites that get RPL won't use it because it is so unportable. Sean -- *** Sean Casey sean@ms.uky.edu, sean@ukma.bitnet, ukma!sean *** "Well, heck's farr, Jim, it gives mah computer sumthin' to do when *** Ah'm out brandin' capacitors." -DM