Calculator as a tool

[cyrille de brébisson]

Hello,

The move from physical to virtual keys is indeed a change, and not everyone is comfortable with it. I personally prefers to have tactile feedback... It is the direction of progress... Youngsters (Defined by anyone at least 5 year younger than oneself) seems to be very use to it and have no issues with it. They find KEYS awkward!!

The programming language is indeed a great improvement over RPL (I imagine that this statement will attract the ire of a few!). Having programmed a LOT in RPL, I however feels correct in this statement.

Prime is not as "finished" as the 50g series (remember, Prime is a 3~4 year old product, the 50g is the end of 20 years of evolution). I have no doubt that, given some more time, it will improve to the point that 50g lovers will start loving it too. It is true that some prime stuff are antinomic to the way things were done on the 50... Change, change change...

Anyhow, for having spent countless hours on 48 and 50 series (when I type text on my prime my muscle memory tries to use the 48 character placement!) I can say that I have 100% switched to prime and feel the better for it. The only times when I miss my 49/50 is when I have to do long series of calculations like checkbook balance where RPN really made things easier. But Prime does offer some good alternatives, even there (for example, enter the numbers in a list and then use sigma list. This has the additional advantage of allowing one to verify his entries. but it takes more planning and a couple more keystrokes).

Cyrille