Re: LZ: New TI-BASIC Compiler
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Re: LZ: New TI-BASIC Compiler
I personally think that a BASIC compiler
is a great idea. It would let all of the current BASIC programs run at twice
their speed, and allow programmers to get more math related software done
faster.
And as to it all fitting on the
calculator, I agree that it probaly wouldn't fit. But how about the compiler
being PC based and have it open 85p files? That would allow it to be as big as
necessary. It could work similar to TASM -> actually, it could just generate
Asm code and then call TASM to make the compiled code.
Just my thoughts
Richard
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From: Henry Zektser <henryz@fermi.walkersville.fr.k12.md.us>
To: list-zshell@lists.ticalc.org
Date: Wednesday, June 18, 1997 9:49 AM
Subject: Re: LZ: New TI-BASIC Compiler
i personally agree with the fact that TI-BASIC would be
kinda useless. as
far as developing a c++ compiler for the ti, let's see someone put all
that parsing and tokenizing into 32K of memory with enough of the memory
left to hold the object code and the finished program. Also, remember, no
one is going to use something that takes up 90% of their memory (ahem
usgard with the fancy shell and all the libs -- i happen to like the small
shell a lot tho)
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On Tue, 17 Jun 1997, Betten wrote:
> Martin,
> Why are you interested in programming a compiler for TI-BASIC programs?
> It seems to me that the majority of the people that are subscribed to
this
> mailing list are not content to program in TI-BASIC at all and have
moved
> on to mainly programming in Z80 assembly language. I can see that
there
> might be some interest from some of the less intelligent TI-85 users in
a
> TI-BASIC compiler, but I would advise not putting much effort into it.
> Honestly, I would work on creating or improving a TI-85 C++ compiler,
> because, in my opinion, C++ is a much better computer programming
language
> than BASIC. If you would be interested in coding a C++ compiler for
the
> TI-85 then I would be interested in lending some help to the project.
> Sincerely,
> Steven Betten
> <sgbetten@hotmail.com>
> <betten5@mindspring.com>
>
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