RE: A89: Which is better?
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RE: A89: Which is better?
Actually you can debug with C. If you set it up so you compile with visual
C++. Just customize it so you can compile with the ti-gcc compiler in Visual
C++ and you can have all of the advantages of using it like line count, you
compile with the click of the button and it even has the different coloring
for the different parts of your code. And last of all you can just use
Visual C++ debugger. I haven't actually tried the debugger but I have been
told that it works.
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org
[mailto:owner-assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org]On Behalf Of Sebastian
Reichelt
Sent: Monday, May 29, 2000 9:24 PM
To: assembly-89@lists.ticalc.org
Subject: Re: A89: Which is better?
Here's the list of disadvantages and advantages. BTW: Nobody really
programs in HEX on a TI-89, I think.
ASM:
Adv.:
- highest optimization possible
- direct interaction with system (*possible* in C too)
Disadv.:
- hard to learn
- takes a long time to do something
- hard to find errors (although REAL assembly programmers can do that
without problems)
- hard to read (commenting doesn't always help)
- hard to convert/port
C:
Adv.:
- easy to learn (if you can learn high-level programming easily without
complete documentation)
- easy to switch to from BASIC
- more high-level routines exist (thanks to Zeljko)
- less time for creating programs
- programs become less buggy (usually)
- easy to read
Disadv.:
- might not run at full speed (but usually enough so that the user doesn't
notice it)
- bigger programs
- no debugger (yet)
- external libraries are harder to use (but you don't really need them yet)
References: