The Prime is just an Expensive Toy

[ijabbott]

(12-08-2019 04:47 PM)medwatt Wrote:  Now, we come to the programming part. I thought I could maybe write some of my own stuff. Why does everyone want to have their own programming language? I am not interested in spending hours/days trying to learn another programming language that I can only use on a single device. I'm already proficient enough in Python, like most people that went to school in the past decade or so. Why can't the Prime support python? Oh, it's in development and I need to wait 3 years before it's ready or if it is ready at all. By that time, I have no need for the thing anymore.

The Prime's programming language is based on the "HP Basic" in earlier HP student graphing calculators going back as far as HP 38G, but is also based on the Giac (the Prime's CAS engine) programming language (at least for CAS programs).

In any case, it pre-dates MicroPython, and I don't think it has the operating system infrastructure or resources to run a full-blown Python implementation.

Why does everyone want to run Python?