Calculator as a tool

[ColinJDenman]

(12-01-2016 03:43 PM)Claudio L. Wrote:  The strength of RPL is not the language by itself, but the whole environment and how cohesive the stack+directories+RPL language feels. If we remove the environment from the discussion, then RPL is nothing but an ugly senseless sequence of tokens.
I agree PPL is a great language, for large programs it can show its superiority but when looking at the entire computing environment, the Prime feels like several distinct pieces glued together, and that reduces the shine of PPL quite a bit.

I think I share that sense of the Prime still lacking a 'wholeness'.
I certainly enjoy RP as a design approach (... ugly senseless...) and find it has always been an expressive style, but as you say, in conjunction with the stack oriented environment. Ultimately, the lack of full RP on the Prime is the thing I find galling in an HP, despite the market orientation.

I suppose it is rather akin to buying a 12C and discovering it can't do 15C scientific functions -- a mismatch with expectations.