HP 50g -- too shifty?

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X key is really handy. I do find it extremely useful (one could say that it could be more on the edge of keyboard in less valuable keyboard real estate), both in programming a small programs with handfull of commands and every time I use CAS for something. Unfortunate the 'purge' is feels somehow a bit buried, because you can not access it before you have pushed the variables to the stack (one extra ENTER), since it is behind the tool menu. The symbol and hist on the other hand should be somewhere else. Also the CST/usermenu is in wrong place as a shifted menu key. Also the arrow keys are poorly and uneffectily used. I always fancy that the eval and ->num would be shifted around, so the ->num would be 1st and eval as shifted function. Also the lack of polar/rectangular (display format toggle) key is pretty annoying. While using the userkey ability I can modify the keyboard enough that it satisfy my taste, but these are annoying design farts anyway. Also unrot and swap 2 by 2 functions in shifted right arrow would make a everyday stack manipulation so much enjoyable with out of the box calculator.