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Why do French communities seem always a bit ahead in the sector of modern calcs?
09-15-2017, 08:06 PM
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RE: Why do French communities seem always a bit ahead in the sector of modern calcs?
One of the reasons why calculators with a CAS (TI-68k series since the late 1990s, Nspire since 2007 and to a lesser extent Prime since 2013) have always been more popular in France is the fact that unlike those of the USA and a number of other countries, the main standardized French test (the original Baccalauréat, nearly always shortened as "Bac" in everyday language) didn't have, and still doesn't have - even now that the education powers that be mandated an exam mode despite the obvious drawbacks - a stupid, counter-productive "no CAS allowed" restriction.

In the 2000s, there was a significant community of TI-68k developers on yAronet; before TI-Planet, yAronet was one of the two places where low-level, native code Nspire development started in 2009-2010, but people fled to greener pastures with better mood.
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RE: Why do French communities seem always a bit ahead in the sector of modern calcs? - debrouxl - 09-15-2017 08:06 PM



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