What would you like to see in a future HP Prime II? (HP Prime², HP Prime 2X)

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(07-11-2020 06:11 PM)John Keith Wrote:  Aside from being obscure and unreadable, APL is not a modern language and lacks many features programmers have come to expect. It was designed originally for array processing and not as a general-purpose programming language.

It was designed initially as a program specification notation. Modern APL (from Dyalog Ltd for instance) incorporates most every feature one might want in a complete programming system.

(07-11-2020 06:11 PM)John Keith Wrote:  If I had to pick a modern programming language for a hand held calculator I would choose Haskell. It is a concise and powerful language without the mystic runes and bass-ackward syntax of APL.

Love it! Can't argue with the general public image of APL (held especially by programmers ).

Iverson and others had a great deal of success teaching high school and college mathematics using APL. If you're talking about calculators as tools for learning mathematical concepts, APL would certainly be more suited to the HID limitations of a handheld device than conventional programming languages. If you're talking about writing large, complex applications, buy a computer.

Edit: I think most of the disputation in this thread boils down to viewing a calculator as a tool of thought vs. as a tool of computation. Calculators as computation devices had their day when computers were expensive and non-portable. The reason calculators survive today, mostly in the education market, is because they are still suited to the role of a tool of thought.