HP Prime vs HP 49G/50G Programming

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Quote:if someone picks up RPL, then HP PPL is pretty straightforward

That’s an interesting statement. They seem very different to me both in surrounding calculator architecture as well as RPL’s stack based RPN approach vs Prime’s traditional algebraic basic/pascal programming style.

Perhaps it’s like driving a manual car (PPL), if you can do that then driving an automatic transmission (Prime) is easy? On the other hand I’d guess that someone who can program a structured language like the Prime couldn’t easily go the other way, and would look at a RPL program listing and wince a little.

I wonder how many found that their RPL programming knowledge prepared them for programming the Prime?