HP-71 BASIC funny quirks

[Albert Chan]

(01-27-2023 08:55 AM)J-F Garnier Wrote:  2. Related to the point above, there is this real bug of the HP-71B 1BBBB:
enter "50 C=1.234567E-10" and see "50 C=.000000"
The bug is referenced as 1148-6 in the HP-71B bug list. It has been "fixed" on the 71B 2CDCC, but the fix is more a workaround to correct the visible effect of the bug and doesn't implement what was, probably, the initial intent ...

Hi, J-F Garnier

What do you mean a "fix" (with quotation mark), and not a fix?
What is decompiler's initial intent?

Perhaps a stupid question ...

Why do we even need a decompiler, if program already human readable?
Why not just saved the BASIC program, the way we type it in?