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How odd. I see a lot of discussion about calculators having history and such, but as someone who became acquainted with Emacs's Calc mode at an early age, it s
by Ferret7446 4y ago
How odd. I see a lot of discussion about calculators having history and such, but as someone who became acquainted with Emacs's Calc mode at an early age, it seems so strange that calculators with history are a foreign concept to most people.
- MandieD 4y agoThe vast majority of people outside of Unix-adjacent computing have never heard of, much less used, emacs. More broadly, most people have never used any form of REPL, including the handy PowerShell that has come out of the box with Windows for a good decade now. This app succeeds because the developer has hit upon an interface that better matches normal users' mental models around calculators.