HP Prime. The programmer dream machine

[Kevin Ouellet]

Indeed the HP PPL language is powerful. I once made a Tunnel game that runs at 90 FPS and that was before I discovered about DIMGROB and BLIT usage. If the game runs at 90 FPS by redrawing everything on the screen every frame, imagine how fast would it be if I just scrolled around.

On top of that, you can even use sprites and polygons, something none of the TI/Casio BASIC languages can achieve. Granted, the TI-Nspire Lua language is more powerful now, but from what I saw in games, it still has a long way to go before its speed can compete with HP PPL speed.