(2) General purpose computers are nowadays really great for this, if the proper programming environments get set up on them. They have awesome screens for displ

(2) General purpose computers are nowadays really great for this, if the proper programming environments get set up on them. They have awesome screens for displaying neat graphics. They have reasonable keyboards for quickly typing in code and numbers and symbols. They have amazing CPUs and GPUs which can crunch numbers like nobody’s business. This has never really not been the case. The merits of calculator programming have always been despite (or arguably, because) of their technical inferiority.