wp34s: the strict rpn sorta bugs me

[Howard Owen]

(12-19-2013 05:16 PM)eri Wrote:  "Strictness"... "decades": RPL has been around for decades too...

Yes it has. And, like the classic RPN machines, RPL machines from HP have been superseded by a new programming model on a machine with much greater horsepower. That suggests to me that there is room for an enthusiast's RPL calculator along the lines of the WP-34s.

Leaving aside the problems of obtaining a suitable hardware platform and, more importantly, volunteer expertise and commitment, I see one other difficulty. The corpse of RPL is not only still warm, it is still breathing in the form of the HP-50g. Perhaps it's too early to embark on such a project.