Assembler, but not at all

[John Keith]

(10-11-2023 09:43 AM)komame Wrote:  

(09-22-2023 09:03 PM)jte Wrote:  A while back I was pondering on the languages built into the HP Prime; I was thinking something Forth-ish might be nice, to carry on a bit of the stack tradition. But a very simple language close to the underlying cpu is certainly another possibility to consider.

If FORTH were available on the HP Prime and it was compiled to machine code (instead of being interpreted), it would be a game changer. I think most people who love HP calculators for their RPN would be over the moon about such a feature. However, since Python is already there and it's the main focus for development, the chances for another language are slim, right?

Being that the Prime is an HP graphing calculator, I would think that RPL is the natural choice if another language was available. Of course, RPL is slower than PPL, never mind a compiled language, so not really applicable to the task at hand.