Emulator or calculator to write programs ?

[Egan Ford]

(05-26-2018 06:39 PM)enricor Wrote:  My question to more experienced users is : what do you use to write programs : the emuiator, or the calculator, or an external text editor ?

The poll above does not have "external text editor" as an option.

The short answer is, "it depends".

Short programs I write directly on the calculator.

Long programs I use a text editor (vi), and then import to emulator or calculator (if possible). I do this for any calculator model. Even keystroke programming. If emulators are available I prefer to use them first, then do final testing on the calc.

Specific to the Prime (which I have not programmed since January 2014, last prime program: http://www.hpmuseum.org/forum/thread-317.html) I used vi on my Mac. I also had to convert with iconv between UTF-16LE and UTF-8 when moving programs back and forth. Unsure if this is still the case.