First Month with 50g

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(04-14-2015 06:57 PM)Tugdual Wrote:  I wonder what 50g owners are doing with their machines for professional purposes. I purchased one for a hobby (I never had seen RPL before) and a very few manual calculations (price calculations most of the time...) at work. When things become serious, most people would switch on Excel and myself on C++.
Anything I do on the 50g is good fun but terribly inefficient. For my day to day work, a 35S is actually the best option, not the 50G. So I would be interested in some feedback from users regarding their professional use of the calculator (anything not related to education).

I use the 50g for my normal work as I find the programmability very powerful¹. I also have a 35s and did write several of my programs for it too, but the keystroke programming is laborious. Other advantages over the 35s are:
- more powerful programming
- easier to program (you can even do it on a PC with e.g. HPUserEdit)
- save programs on SD card or PC
- when main batteries die, programs on the calculator are safe due to memory backup battery
- program checksums work, making it easier to re-enter programs if they do get deleted
- as I am used to a 28/48/50 series stack², I find it difficult to adjust to traditional stack entry with stack lift and limited to 4 levels.

Best regards.


footnotes:
1) I only use UserRPL. I have not found a need for other programming languages or SystemRPL as my programs run quick enough anyway. For anyone only requiring UserRPL, I highly recommend HPUserEdit: http://www.hpcalc.org/details.php?id=6600
2) My first HP calculator was a 28C.