Hi- I am interested in this subject. There is an interesting Picforth implementation targeting the 877 -- I would be very interested in extending this to the 18F series. Perhaps we can make a multi-headed (monster) compiler? David Roy J. Gromlich wrote: >I would have to question a byte-code interpreter as a general fix-all >for development. In theory you can sell a lot of chips (boards) with >this byte-code interpreter burned into the processor, but ultimately >developers are going to want the advantages of a compiler which >goes directly the basic machine language. > >Yes, I have seen the old P-code Pascal implementations, which did >work rather well. And there are Basic systems (I remember HP basic) >which ran as an interpreter during development and allowed doing a >compile when you were (mostly) satisfied with your code. > >I don't mean to be negative here - maybe I just don't understand where >you see the advantage in the byte-code system? > >Roy J. Gromlich > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "D. Jay Newman" >To: >Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2004 6:28 PM >Subject: Re: [PIC]: Any one interested in developing a Open Source stamp c >lone using 16F87X > > > > >>>Unless I were seriously constrained by $money$ I would do all >>> >>> >development > > >>>for the 18C 18F series. >>> >>> >>Agreed. >> >>However, if you're going for an open-source "stamp", you might as well >>make it an open-source byte-code interpreter. That way people can write >>compilers for BASIC, Forth, Java, whatever. >> >>*If* the bytecode interpreter is made general enough it should be able >>to cover most languages. LISP on a PIC anyone? :) >> >>Seriously, I'd be interested in helping to design such a bytecode >>interpreter. >> >>I'd also like to see it licensed in such a way that commercial sources >>could sell this so that not everybody would need a programmer to use >>it. >>-- >>D. Jay Newman ! >>jay@sprucegrove.com ! Xander: Giles, don't make cave-slayer unhappy. >>http://enerd.ws/robots/ ! >> >>-- >>http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! >>email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body >> >> > >-- >http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! >email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body > > > -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! email listserv@mitvma.mit.edu with SET PICList DIGEST in the body