Complex TI-57 Programs

[pauln]

As I reported earlier, for me it was:

• Lunar Lander
• Biorhythms
  

The TI-57 being mostly an educational tool, it doesn't seem to have many complex programs. But I believe it has potential. In fact it is not too far from the HP-25:

Tie: both calculators have fully merged steps

TI-57 advantage

• subroutines
• 1 additional step (50 vs 49)
  

HP-25 advantage

• can go to an arbitrary step (GTO nn). In a TI-57 you have to declare labels and that takes 1 additional step per label
• both have 8 registers but TI-57 uses Reg 7 for comparisons
• RPN vs AOS. But note that an efficient TI-57 program would rarely/never use parentheses. Instead it will use arithmetic on registers (SUM n, Prd n, etc.)