HP Prime - worthy successor to HP-71B ?

[polbit]

I enjoy programming on the devices themselves and 71B BASIC is the best implementation I've used on a handheld device. HPPL has the benefit of being much newer, yet it forces the use of BEGIN/END and semicolons. On a calculator...

On top of it, landscape QWERTY layouts are simply much better suited for programming. Prime is a PITA to write non-trivial programs on because of how much text entry you have to do.

Intended market for the two machines is of course very different as well. One was a tool for professionals and the other is a student's aid, since the professional market no longer exists in the modern era.

With that in mind, I don't think of the two as related.