About DM32

[Valentin Albillo]

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Hi, Vincent,

(05-17-2023 04:56 PM)Vincent Weber Wrote:  Plus42 has the unique style of equations that came with the 27S and the 17B, an elegant, purely functional language, with LET and GET, conditionals, sigma loops, and enhanced it with FOR loops and user-defined functions with local environment and full recursion. Almost nothing to envy to the powerful BASIC of the 71B.

Seriously, Vincent !? Have you ever used HP-71B's BASIC ?

Does timers, data files, DATA/READ statements, LEX extensions, (BIN) subprograms with parameter passing by value or reference, arrays/matrices, strings, string arrays, IEEE compliance, ON GOTO/GOSUB/RESTORE/TIMER etc. ring a bell ?

Let alone the extensions to BASIC provided by the Math ROM: COMPLEX variables/operations, integrate, solve, FFT, polynomial rootfinding, ... or the ones for extende I/O and device control provided by the HP-IL ROM ..."Almost nothing to envy", you say !! What a joke !

Quote:And yes, 41 owners grumbled a lot with RPL, [...] Some grumbled to the point that they sticked with their 41 forever, and to this day are still waiting for a worthy successor...

Not me. I soon got an HP-71B and never looked back, as it can really run rings around any flavour of 41C.

As for a successor to the 41C, the HP-42S was obviously the one but it was butchered in the craddle by some marketing decisions at HP, who were intent in cramming RPL machines down our throats whether we liked it or not, and the 42S was the innocent victim of the RPL enforced supremacy. Without the criminal 42S's I/O crippling, sales of RPL machines would have plunged into the mud and HP knew it.

Regards.
V.