HP Prime or HP 50g

[Michael de Estrada]

I think the Prime has the advantage in programming clarity with CAS PPL instead of RPL on the 50g in situations where you are generating symbolic structures like matrix elements. For example, below are portions of programs in RPL and PPL on my 50g and Prime:

RPL

“row1” << IF K1 0 >= THEN L3 NEG PUTI K1 PUTI L3 PUTI K1 PUTI ELSE 0 PUTI 1 PUTI 0 PUTI 1 PUTI END >>

PPL

IF A >= 0 THEN CAS(“row1:=[x^3,-A,-x^3,-A]”);
ELSE CAS(“row1:=[0,-1,0,-1]”);
END;

It is immediately apparent what is going on in the PPL code, whereas the RPL code is a bit obtuse.