TI Bans all Assembly Programming, Casio Limits Add-ins. Please don't follow suit HP.

[medwatt]

(05-27-2020 12:11 AM)rprosperi Wrote:  

(05-26-2020 10:43 PM)medwatt Wrote:  Meanwhile, TI gave them Python instead which will probably make up for the lack of Assembly and even more. I'm looking at my HP Prime in disgust, really. I reported a bug a while back to both Tom and
Cyrille. They didn't even bother reply to my emails; they just ignored me. I wish I can sell my HP Prime 2 without too much loss because the more it stays around, the more my blood boils when I realize I burned more than €120 on it. I absolutely have no use for it and I refuse to learn HP's version of Basic. I have no intentions of wasting my time on a programming language that works on a single device.

Maybe Tim and Cyrille are busy adding Python to the Prime, rather than fixing other minor bug reports (though I agree, it doesn't take long at all to just reply, assuming they got it)? It would be a shame if you sold it and then what you wanted to happen, did happen; you'd have to buy a Prime all over again.

I have information about this, I'm just asking 'what if...?'

But it seems there is anger there about more than just this issue, so please feel free to ignore this, and go ahead and sell your Prime G2; though it seems like there is no rush, the used Prime price does not seem to drop much with time.

The interesting part is they initially asked me to provide more details about the bug. I did and they never replied back even after emailed them several weeks later. It's like avoiding someone with a plague.

I should have probably done more research before getting the G2. I am the sort of person that would take a month to make a decision about buying anything. I did the unthinkable and sold my well-preserved HP-50g for 135EUR. Here, in Germany, used HP-50g(s) can go for as high as 200EUR. I had used the 50g for so long and the Prime was intriguing. That's how I ended up with the prime. I started getting second thoughts when I booted up the calculator for the first time and realized there was an app called triangle solver.

I haven't touched the calculator since the last update in February. At that time I had found an app that was useful to me (control toolbox). The problem is you cannot restart the calculator or have the calculator recover from a crash with the app installed. I contacted the developer and he also experiences the same problem. The crash even occurs on the emulator. I contacted Tim and Cyrille to inform them about the bug almost a month before the new update. So, I was hoping the new update would solve the issue but it didn't and had no use for the calculator anymore. I mean, the last time I needed to calculate the angle of a triangle was when I 8 or so. Anyway, I guess I should end my rant here.