On 01/01/2011 10:03 PM, William "Chops" Westfield wrote:

> Whatever happened to P-code (for pascal), anyway?  It seems (?) that =20
> interpreters in general have advanced in the relatively recent past; =20
> were there enough advantages in the p-code runtime environment to =20
> think about doing that again, or have the (older) advances made in =20
> compiler technology made it uninteresting anyway?  (I never noticed =20
> whether P-code added run-time capabilities to a typical CPU, or was =20
> just a crutch so people wouldn't have to write code generators.)

Odd you should mention it, I've been thinking about doing a BASIC
stamp like environment for a few networked uCs. So far I've not
gotten past taking a look at some tokenizers and wondering if this
is such a good idea.

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