Casio Python updates

[Valentin Albillo]

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Hi, robve:

(02-13-2021 06:27 PM)robve Wrote:  There is a lot of interest in Python on calculators these days. This tells me that:

1. the calculator in question offers deficient programming capabilities and Python is a better alternative
2. people think for some reason that their calculator with Python is superior
3. they long for calculators with full QWERY keys to program Python

Python is ubiquitous, as BASIC was in its day, with the obvious important advantage that you don't need to waste time and effort learning all the nooks and crannies of yet another new proprietary programming language which will run on only a few calcs or even just one, like Hppl for the HP Prime. Myself, I would never bother to waste time learning such a niche language.

Quote:If I was in charge to produce a new calculator line, the devices would look like a hybrid of these two:[...]

The SHARP PC-1475 is an awesome pocket computer with 20-digit precision no less and indeed very compact, but such compactness carries the burden of a small 2-line display, which is quite limiting for writing and listing programs in it. I'd select instead any of the many SHARP models with 4-line displays or larger, such as the SHARP PC-1350 shown here (running my own Othello program):




V.