HP Prime - worthy successor to HP-71B ?

[pier4r]

(09-28-2017 12:48 PM)John Keith Wrote:  To me, the problem with BASIC/HPPL is that they are too "typing intensive" for use on a hand-held device like a calculator. Even the 71B with its QWERTY keyboard is not optimized for typing. The Prime and its language lend themselves to development of programs on a PC which are then transferred to the calculator. RPL, for better or worse, is a very terse language and equivalent programs tend to be significantly shorter.

This is also very true. Unless one has a proper querty. Note: I found the qwerty of the nokia E series good enough, I do not know the 71B.