----- Original Message ----- From: Spehro Pefhany To: Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2004 4:46 PM Subject: Re: Newbie stupid question > At 11:14 AM 7/27/2004 -0400, you wrote: > >Hello all, > > > >I was wondering why some PIC Basic compilers are free and some are over > >$100.00. > >Don't they do the same thing ? :-) > > Why are some cars $400.00 and some are $250,000? > > Why do you want to use Basic (or if you're a believer in backronyms "BASIC"**) > anyway? Maybe you could see your way clear to something better... > > **Beginner's All-Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code > > Best regards, > > Spehro Pefhany --"it's the network..." "The Journey is the reward" > speff@interlog.com Info for manufacturers: http://www.trexon.com > Embedded software/hardware/analog Info for designers: http://www.speff.com With regard to something better, the following was posted to the XCSB** mailing list by a member of this piclist. :: For those still wondering on how optimised the code produced by XCSB :: can be, I converted a medium sized 'C' program to XCSB and the :: program word count came down from 3384 words to 2394 This is not a contrived sample app using highly optimised assembler libraries. This is a real world app ported by a real user. ** XC Structured BASIC Regards Sergio Masci http://www.xcprod.com/titan/XCSB - optimising PIC compiler -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.