Allschwil Meeting 2018

[Maximilian Hohmann]

Hello!

(11-08-2018 10:46 PM)HP-Collection Wrote:  Well, now I've finally made it.

Thank you so much for your effort!

I just clicked my way through the first presentation by Hans Klaver. It concludes with three questions (numbers added by me):

1. Do you think it’s a useful feature for a small stack RPN calculator, or is it completely superfluous?

2. Do you think the course of history of RPN calculators would have been different if HP would have implemented such a scheme into its HP-35 45 years ago?

3. Do you think it will ever be implemented in a future hardware RPN calculator?

I wonder what the opinion/consensus of the gathered audience was regarding those questions?

My answers would be:
1. Yes it could be useful. Just the same as a warning on an algebraic calculator would be that one runs out of parentheses (some have 2 levels, some 3 others 10 but there is no warning).
2. No (in my experience stack overflow is the least of problems an occasional or beginner RPN user encounters)
3. No. „Small stack“ is a thing of the distant past. There is no need to limit the stack size in any future RPN calculator.

Regards
Max