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[Steve Simpkin]

(12-22-2020 12:05 PM)grsbanks Wrote:  

(12-22-2020 10:46 AM)Stevetuc Wrote:  Im curious, why wouldnt you call HPPL a programming language? What would you call it?

IMO it definitely is a Turing-complete programming language, but not one that lends itself to input on the machine on which a program written in that language is supposed to run. You're much better off writing a program using the connection kit (or writing it in your favourite text editor and copy/pasting it into the connection kit), using the virtual HP-Prime to debug it and then copying it to a physical HP-Prime.

I agree. I suspect the same can be said for Python or the dialects of BASIC used by other calculator manufacturers. IMHO the last calculator keyboard entry friendly language was the keystroke programming model used on the older RPN machines although it was not easy to decipher a program that someone else had written. An ease of keyboard entry vs ease of understanding compromise.