Re: How to convert Infix notation to postfix notation

In <pozIm.1994$Ym4.221@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, bartc wrote:


"Richard Heathfield" <rjh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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spinoza1111 wrote:

Grow up. Most platforms are Microsoft.

Absolute rubbish. [...] MS is a tiny drop in a rather large puddle.

I keep hearing all this. But since the 80's, most of the computers
I've been able to buy have come with a MS operating system. Most of
the rest have been Macs.

How many mainframe systems have you bought, personally, in the last
twenty years? How many minicomputer systems? And of course most of
the computers that you /have/ bought in the last twenty years aren't
MS platforms.

By computers I mean what you normally expect: a box with a screen
and keyboard.

If you can arbitrarily restrict the meaning of the word "computer" as
much as you like, it's easy enough to come to almost any conclusion
about them that you wish.

<snip>

Regarding C, some development will be targeted at MS/PC platforms,
the rest at everything else.

I prefer to include "MS/PC" in with "everything else" wherever
possible. It's easier (less work).

I don't know what the mix is (counting developers, not numbers of
end-products), but I'd say the MS/PC lot are still a sizeable chunk;
they would welcome that book that was mentioned and there's no real
reason for them to care whether their product runs on anything else.

If they base their knowledge on "that book that was mentioned",
there's no real reason for their product to run on MS platforms
either.

Likewise, someone developing C for your engine management system
can't really be expected to care whether his product will work on a
PC.

On several non-PC projects I've worked on, we cared passionately that
the program would work on a PC, because that was the easiest place to
do development and debugging.

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