The Prime is just an Expensive Toy

[HP User]

Let me be honest about it: I don't easily give standing ovations, and medwatt's reasoning for the moment at least seems better, though both his and Claudio's are imperfect or flawed.

By the way, not everyone wants Python. I don't want it and many others don't want it either.

That aside, let me ask this: why did HP not include good compatibility with those applications, of which they knew people were already using them? They could have predicted the kinds of complaints given by medwatt. They could've designed some kind of system with compatibility for them. They could've designed and made the HP with all the nice modern touches, while still going forward from the previous good ones, staying compatible, and enforcing a more practical and quicker control scheme.

Certainly such a device would've made more sense: you keep the good parts from previous successful products, you modernize it, you stay compatible, you improve it, and so on.