NewRPL and desktop RPL

[carey]

Hi everyone,

I'm interested in RPL as a general desktop scientific programming language, as independent as possible of specific calculator constraints (e.g., particular keyboards or displays).

Desktop RPL calculator emulators work well, but are tied to particular calculators. A desktop build of NewRPL is available, but appears (to me) to be targeted to calculators rather than as a general purpose language, e.g., the desktop UI seems to require selecting either a Prime or 50g keyboard & display to interact with.

Is there a way to use desktop NewRPL in something like a console mode where it reads an RPL script and outputs numerical or symbolic results without displaying a virtual calculator keyboard and window (I'm not looking for plots or graphical output)? Or perhaps I'm thinking of the question wrong and might achieve some general RPL programming goals by viewing desktop RPL as an IDE with an embedded programming language.

The other desktop RPL options I'm aware of are: RPL/2 (I'm looking for something simpler to install and use on Windows), rplsh (last version is from 2009), and the Emacs Calculator (haven't tried yet).

Thank you!