Does anyone make an interpreter/compiler for the MSP430 in any kind of Basic? Thanks in advance, ...Tim
Basic Interpreter/Compiler
Started by ●October 21, 2005
Reply by ●October 25, 20052005-10-25
Paul Curtis of Rowley developed this interpreter: http://www.rowley.co.uk/msp430/basic.htm
Reply by ●October 25, 20052005-10-25
There is a newer, more comprehensive interpreter on the way, written in
C for portability between processors (but possibly not between
compilers, I don't want to port it everywhere).
-- Paul.
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Reply by ●October 25, 20052005-10-25
--- In msp430@msp4..., "Paul Curtis" <plc@r...> wrote:
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> compilers, I don't want to port it everywhere).
Cool! Maybe we could use it on an ARM?
Reply by ●October 25, 20052005-10-25
Would that be a prosthetic ARM?
Al
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Reply by ●October 26, 20052005-10-26
Eric,
> --- In msp430@msp4..., "Paul Curtis"
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> > There is a newer, more comprehensive interpreter on the
> way, written in
> > C for portability between processors (but possibly not between
> > compilers, I don't want to port it everywhere).
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> Cool! Maybe we could use it on an ARM?
It works very well on an ARM.
-- Paul.
Reply by ●October 26, 20052005-10-26
About 4 years ago - just for fun - I ported a BASIC (in C) onto an ARM [ a
dedicated GSM mobile phone version].
It worked OK ... but I couldn't really think of anything useful to do with
it on a mobile phone, especially as the interpreter code size was BIG!
ARM assembler [or C] is much more fun!
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To: <msp430@msp4...>
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 2:28 AM
Subject: [msp430] Re: Basic Interpreter/Compiler
> --- In msp430@msp4..., "Paul Curtis"
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>> There is a newer, more comprehensive interpreter on the way, written in
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>> compilers, I don't want to port it everywhere).
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Reply by ●October 26, 20052005-10-26
Hi Richard,
> About 4 years ago - just for fun - I ported a
BASIC (in C)
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> dedicated GSM mobile phone version].
> It worked OK ... but I couldn't really think of anything
> useful to do with
> it on a mobile phone, especially as the interpreter code size was BIG!
I need to strongly disagree here. The immediacy of a good BASIC is
great and the birthplace of the personal computer idustry. The board
I'm using it on now has a keyboard & mouse interface, an ARM7, lots of
RAM, an MMC card interface for mass storage, video out and so on. It
works really well as a small computer.
-- Paul.
Reply by ●October 26, 20052005-10-26
Hi Paul,
Don't get me wrong - I am/was a great BASIC fan.
I wrote a freeware integer BASIC [in asm] for the Siemens C167 and then
later a floating point BASIC [in C] with an integrated DSP library also for
the C167 & TriCore as a commercial product.
It's just the GSM phone platform that didn't really make sense!
Richard
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Curtis" <plc@plc@...>
To: <msp430@msp4...>
Sent: Wednesday, October 26, 2005 8:55 AM
Subject: RE: [msp430] Re: Basic Interpreter/Compiler
> Hi Richard,
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>> About 4 years ago - just for fun - I ported a BASIC (in C)
>> onto an ARM [ a
>> dedicated GSM mobile phone version].
>> It worked OK ... but I couldn't really think of anything
>> useful to do with
>> it on a mobile phone, especially as the interpreter code size was BIG!
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> I need to strongly disagree here. The immediacy of a good BASIC is
> great and the birthplace of the personal computer idustry. The board
> I'm using it on now has a keyboard & mouse interface, an ARM7,
lots of
> RAM, an MMC card interface for mass storage, video out and so on. It
> works really well as a small computer.
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> -- Paul.
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Reply by ●October 26, 20052005-10-26
Jeez... About 20 years ago I wrote a basic-to-bytecode ( my own bytecode ) system, which semi-compiled the source into a packet fast-to-run intermediate code, and an execute engine. Java before it's time. ooh, look, I'm on the web... http://www.xs4all.nl/~fjkraan/comp/dai/insideInfo.html http://www.xs4all.nl/~fjkraan/comp/dai/PCRM/PCRM_c02.html Actually I wrote a position paper describing the language of the future - it got 90% of Java's ideas right. I didn't know much about object-orientation though :-) All to get an 8080 to do something, anything, at a useful speed. It would go like shit off a shovel on an MSP430. floating point could still be a bit glue-like though. I wonder if it's time to dust off the design :-) David
