About the 39GS

[toml_12953]

(02-18-2018 12:42 PM)Gerald H Wrote:  

(02-18-2018 12:32 PM)toml_12953 Wrote:  What makes it so horrible? Its programming language is the same as the Prime which I find the best language of any calculator I've ever used (I've used most programmables from the HP 9100A and later)

Exactly! & that reveals the underlying grotesqueness of the Prime.

What would you use? That horrible write-only language where everything is in
« » ? RPL is good for one-off calculations and I use it for those. I can see the attraction of building functions like layers of an onion. For permanent programs, though, give me a self-documenting language where I can go back and immediately see how I did something in a program written months or even years ago. People may say that RPL is closer to the machine and therefore more efficient. I say that nowadays, the hardware is advanced enough to make that a moot point. My time is most important. I want the machine to do the busy work of parsing, hierarchy, etc..