HHC 2023: Python on Prime: A Personal Experience (Günter Schink)

[@tomlake2732]

Great talk! You cleared up some of the mystery for me. BTW, in the latest version of the software, 2.2 the garbage characters don't appear when using characters above 127 ASCII in a print statement.

[@drbarnack1885]

I've been looking forward to this talk. Günter is probably one of the world's leading experts on the HP Prime implementation outside of HP/Morovia.

[@dscott1524]

I was hoping for an implementation of C rather than Python on the Prime. C is the foundation language for many important applications and students should be at least familiar with it. Why Python of all choices anyway? I have an old Casio VX-4 with not only C (as well as BASIC) but assembly as well. Its a lot of fun. Cheers.

[@0LoneTech]

Why Python is because it replaces the level of Basic: a high level beginner language applicable on many computers today. That doesn't mean you couldn't have low level code; CPython has FFI and raw memory access e.g. with ctypes, MicroPython has machine code compilation, PyPy has type aware JIT compilation. But Prime seems designed to keep the user away from the core of the machine. Yet... the very first test here shows they've done a crap job of it for their Python implementation.

[@7alken]

its blue/yellow since 2006; strategy;

[@johankotze42]

No whistles to the tune? You were a dry bunch! 🙂

[@microcontrolecn5569]

Data loss after reset is the problem on HP prime Python or other language does not matter if it is not a reliable product