Benefits from programming in vintage HP machines Message #1 Posted by Namir on 2 Dec 2010, 2:36 p.m.
Hi All,
Now that my collection of vintage HP calculator (as well as graphing HP, TI, and Casio machines) is growing again, I feel compelled to program.play with them to justify their presence. Of course using these old limited machines is no match with today's PCs (even the smallest ones). Yet I feel that working with the limited vintage machine challenges us to program in a lean way. The temptation today is to justify "wasteful" programming, such as extra arrays that store duplicate data that we justify for whatever reasons. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.
Do you feel that programming vintage HP, TI, Casio, Sharp, and other machines is a total, partial, nostalgic waste of time, or a nice reminder and exercise in lean programming?
Namir
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