HP Prime - worthy successor to HP-71B ?

[Vincent Weber]

(09-28-2017 02:09 PM)pier4r Wrote:  

(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.

The Prime has HPPL templates in menus for blocks, loops, conditionals, that are much more efficient than typing every letter on a qwerty keyboard. Just like every Casio or TI graphing calculator.
Even on the 71B the most common BASIC keyboards are directly available on the keyboard, reducing a lot the need for qwerty...