From kde-devel  Mon Dec 10 21:38:21 2007
From: Matthew Woehlke <mw_triad () users ! sourceforge ! net>
Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 21:38:21 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: KCalc and KRegexpEditor Need Maintainers
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Diederik van der Boor wrote:
> I've always found it odd that users of modern computers with so much 
> processing power have to deal with immitations of old calculator interfaces. 
> This is emulated so such extend that the interface even includes M+ and M- 
> buttons to store data, and lack of intelligence to handle expressions like 2 
> + 1 * 2.

Heh. Especially when modern pocket calculators are more and more like 
computers (i.e. can save variables, handle "2+1*2", etc). :-)

> I always recommend speedcrunch to anyone who does calculations with computers. 
> It has a good overview with past calculations, variables, powerful functions, 
> and still features buttons so beginners can use it as well.

Hmm... speedcrunch (at least the screenshot) looks a lot like one of 
said modern pocket calculators (or a TI-8x, anyway).

Now if it could just do 2d/3d graphs, perform symbolic integration, and 
play Pong*...

(* ...because the ability to run games written in its own assembly 
language is a required feature, without which it is incomplete ;-).)

-- 
Matthew
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