gnupic: Re: [gnupic] alpha testers wanted
Subject:
Re: [gnupic] alpha testers wanted
From:
John Chubick ####@####.####
Date:
26 Aug 2005 23:00:01 +0100
Message-Id: <143d30ad05082614597c725f44@mail.gmail.com>
Hi David,
Let me start with I'm pretty new to pic programming... I started in
March of this year. I've been a software developer / system architect
in the business world for almost 20 years now and have a number of
languages under my belt including C, COBOL, PL/1, Pascal, Perl, and
more recently Java. I think I had a class in Forth while in
college...no, that was Fortran. Anyway, earlier this year my interest
in electronics was renewed and I picked up PIC assembler using gpsim
and the gputils. I'm currently working on the project on the cover
page of the Mar/Apr issue of
QEX...http://www.arrl.org/qex/2005/qx3toc.pdf
I'm no expert by any means but I'd certainly be willing to take a look
at your "stuff". OO programming of the pic sounds very interesting.
Best regards,
John
On 8/25/05, David McNab ####@####.#### wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> I'm seeking people interested in playing with a new PIC18Fxxx compiler,
> and possibly even using it in their projects.
>
> The compiler features:
> - high-level language programming
> - multitasking (co-operative)
> - object-oriented programming (optional)
> - exception handling
> - dynamic memory management
> - effortlessly easy integration with assembler
> - extensibility to the very core
>
> The compiler in question comes from my earlier PIC18Forth toolchain.
>
> In recap, PIC18Forth compiles Forth source code to a bytecode
> token-threaded VM runtime environment. On the positive side, this
> implememtation offers great flexibility and extremely compact code, but
> at a heavy performance cost.
>
> So I've forked Pic18Forth into two versions:
> - 'Van' - original version - slow, but able to carry
> large amounts of code in a PIC18F
> - 'Coupe' - new version - subroutine-threaded compilation, which gives
> near-native speed but loses the code density of the 'wagon', while
> keeping the flexibility
>
> It's the 'coupe' version for which I'm seeking testers at this time.
>
> I'm looking to have the manuals, tutorial, example progs, release
> tarball etc done over the weekend.
>
> For testers, I'm looking for people who:
> - like Forth, or are curious/flexible enough to learn a bit of it
> - are looking to try out a new high-level language compiler for
> PIC18Fxxx devices
> - have at least a crude reading knowledge of PIC18Fxxx assembler
> - use gputils and gpsim
> - are willing to give clear feedback and feature suggestions
>
> and desirably:
> - are working on actual PIC18Fxxx-based projects
> - might be willing to get involved in future development and
> documentation
> - might be willing and able to contribute device drivers in the
> future
>
> Please let me know on- or off-list if you're interested.
>
> --
> Cheers
> David
>
>
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