I though MR must be at least 99 by now...

but apparently not..

D.

Yeah, another typeless language and more control structures than you
could come to terms with.  UNLESS?  Give me a break, what's NOT for?

--
Paul Curtis, Rowley Associates Ltd  http://www.rowley.co.uk
CrossWorks for MSP430, ARM, AVR and now MAXQ processors 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard (UK). [mailto:ymsp430@ymsp...] 
> Sent: 27 October 2005 08:30
> To: msp430@msp4...
> Subject: Re: [msp430] Re: Basic Interpreter/Compiler
> 
> Hi,
> 
> You might want to take a look at Martin Richards webpages - 
> he invented BCPL & CINTPOS.  http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/users/mr/
> 
> Richard
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Eric Engler" <englere.geo@engl...>
> To: <msp430@msp4...>
> Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 5:00 AM
> Subject: [msp430] Re: Basic Interpreter/Compiler
> 
> 
> >> 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.
> >
> > I've also worked with various intermediate code systems over the
> > years. Here's some thoughts I put together on a 16 bit embedded
VM:
> >
> > http://www.ericengler.com/downloads/EmbeddedVM.txt
> >
> > This is something that could offer portablity between various 16 bit
> > CPUs. I have 2 in mind: the Freescale hc12 family, and the 
> MSP430 family.
> >
> > I did not use objects in this concept because of the limited RAM.
> >
> > If I do something like this for the ARM it will support objects and
> > will likely be similar to the Java VM. But I would add the 
> ability to
> > dereference pointers in order to be more efficient with C programs.
> >
> > Right now I'm building my hc12 debugger and this will keep 
> me busy for
> > a while.
> >
> > Eric
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > .
> >
> >
> > Yahoo! Groups Links
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > 
> 
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Curtis" <plc@plc@...>
To: <msp430@msp4...>
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 12:06 PM
Subject: RE: [msp430] Re: Basic Interpreter/Compiler


> Yeah, another typeless language and more control
structures than you
> could come to terms with.  UNLESS?  Give me a break, what's NOT for?

It worked well enough for K&R to develop their B language with it, which 
begat C. 8-)

Leon 

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