HP-35s New Moon Lander behavior

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(04-26-2019 08:56 PM)Valentin Albillo Wrote:  A real pity, it could've been a really great product if HP would have cared in the least.

V.

Complaints about the 35S bugs come up on a periodic basis and on one of the many iterations I remember Tim W. giving a reason why the code was not corrected by the HP team. IIRC code development was contracted out to a Chinese firm that delivered no documentation on completion, only sparsely comment source code. Commented in Chinese. I really should see if I can find that thread to confirm the details.

One might complain that HP didn't assign someone to master the source code so the bugs could be addressed. As an experiment, pick one of the reported errors in Claudio's long running newRPL thread and see if you can fix it. Be sure to strip the code of all comments first though. Record how long it takes you to find and fix the bug, including testing time. Multiply the resulting time it takes by the number of bugs. I suspect the answer will be pretty high.

Not a task I would volunteer for!
~Mark