About the 39GS

[toml_12953]

(02-18-2018 07:23 PM)Gerald H Wrote:  I don't know, toml_12953, how to answer you.

Perhaps an example:

If you look at this thread

http://www.hpmuseum.org/forum/thread-10026.html

you will see the development of a programme that I enjoyed working on, in the hope of producing a short & fast programme in an environment with, by today's standards, limited resources (a 50g).

The final version is able to find a partition of a 44,400 digit number in c 21 sec, which I consider reasonably fast.

True, more modern hardware will deal with the problem much more efficiently.

So perhaps you, or some interested Prime adept, could write a Prime programme to partition a 44,444 digit integer in palindromic parts more efficiently?

You're missing the point. Machine efficiency isn't what I'm after. I need a language that is efficient for me. Having a hard time figuring out what a program does years later isn't efficient for me. HPPL is easy to understand even if you haven't written the program or have forgotten just how it's supposed to operate. If a program runs in 21 seconds rather than 30 seconds but it takes me a half hour to figure out how to change it, then the slower program that I understand right away is the one I'll use. If you can provide a pseudo code equivalent of your program, I'd be glad to try in on the Prime.

Quick addition: I'm not trying to say that RPL is no good or that it shouldn't be available. All I'm saying is that for me HPPL is a more efficient use of my time and a better way to program.