faassen,
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It's interesting that programming languages introduce limited postfix notation all the time for convenience: method calls (and chaining) in a variety of languages, type declarations after the variable, .await in Rust.

Yet general postfix languages like Forth are quite uncommon.

deshipu,
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@faassen I blame the ingraining of the infix notation for the mathematical operators. We teach it that way at school, and it's hard to shake it off.

deshipu,
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@faassen Then again, I wouldn't say they are uncommon. Forth, LISP and all the offshoots of it, PostScript with PDF and other of its offshoots, Python bytecode – it's being used a lot everywhere, it's just usually not exposed to the "average" user.

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