CAS Programming Reference Material?

[Joe Horn]

(02-25-2014 12:09 AM)DeucesAx Wrote:  The calculator is out for barely half a year. How do you have the audacity to ask for programming reference material?

Indeed. For example, the 48SX came out in March 1990, and the excellent HP 48 Programmer's Reference Manual came out just 4 months later! And the 48G/GX came out in June 1993, and the even more complete HP 48G Series Advanced User's Reference Manual came out only 1 month later! Come on, HP!

On the other hand... Just thinking out loud here... I'm afraid that if they DID publish a thorough reference manual for the Prime, everybody would get even angrier, because it would be immediately obsolete, because Prime is still having features added to it, features changed, and bugs removed. It's a moving target. The best way to learn about a rapidly moving object is not by reading about it in a book but by watching it on a radar screen. So what we need is live documentation, both online (where it can be easily updated, and be readable on a tablet next to the Prime) and built-in (where it should simply agree with its concurrent firmware version).

And while I'm at it, I wish it rained beer. Good, dark, German beer, not American beer, which is already 99% rainwater. But I digress.