On Thu, 28 Jun 2001, michael brown wrote:

> Patrick,
>
> I think that's an ambitious but great project.  Be forewarned that many here
> will, in all probability, do their best to discourage you.  They will tell
> you that: you are wasting your time, open source is stupid, no one needs it,
> and any number of other discouraging statements.

  Not at all ! Michael have right. There are many compilers. But what if
an user don't like any one ? ( for example I hate C, that's why I'm
working in JAL, ( http://come.to/jal ) a sort of friendly pascal.
Some of my toys, in Jal, are at http://www.geocities.com/vsurducan/pic.htm
If you want do to something really cool ( which probably will be
difficult) think to a graphic language as G or to the ancient logo ( with
turtle, remember ? ) There are a lot of hardware people which would love
to play with microcontrollers, why not in a way like Lab View does. Other
pic listers will point to picnpoke site. Ok, but this isn't free or open
project. An open project said a lot about what kind of person is the man
behind that project...
A good compiler has libraries for many devices, forget other
microcontrollers than flash types, thus you'll have fans which will write
libraries and verify your work.
 I think you must try !

Sincerely yours, Vasile

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