Why do French communities seem always a bit ahead in the sector of modern calcs?

[Adriweb]

France also has a history of having pretty good people in the fields of math and computer science, so I guess this reflects that as well

That said, regarding news on TI-Planet, for instance, we're "just" a bunch of calc addicts that spend several hours every day monitoring a whole lot of websites and other things (and being in contact with key people from various manufacturers helps: the trust relationships built along the years allows us to have access to early/beta products so that we can review them and publish news articles when they get released publicly, for instance)