HP Prime

[Tim Wessman]

(08-30-2014 04:51 PM)gbh Wrote:  Just to be definite, the manual is a joke. Many important topics are not covered or even mentioned, and many of those that are covered are not in the skimpy index.

The issue always boils down to "important according to whom". One person's important maybe only be important for .00001% of the customer base.

Now I agree that the RPN information is totally inadequate, and the implementation needs more work as well (blame me for that since I made it). The manually basically assumes right now that a) you are a student, and b) you are running things in default settings. The assumption was made that if you were running set to RPN mode, you were most likely a 49/50 user and things like using a 'quote' around a variable would be second nature.

The plan was, and never has been, to leave RPN so poorly explained indefinitely, but priorities besides "it should be done because it needs to be done" will always take a back seat in a large company that is driven by weighing costs and resources against potential increase in sales.