A Interesting thought.............
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A Interesting thought.............
I was looking at various archives of TI-Basic and Fargo
programs(though this idea can be applied to all ASM
shells) and this thought occurred to me. If TI-BASIC
programs are big and slow as compared to ASM programs,
then wouldn't it make sense to have a PC-based TI-BASIC
compiler? That is, something similar to TICC
(http://ugrad-www.cs.colorado.edu/~brinkmas/TIC/tic_home.html)
which is a "C-like" compiler that lets the user write C-style
code and then compiles it as a Fargo program. However,
instead of C it should read TI-BASIC files and generate an
ASM file for whichever ASM shell the user chooses; though
there would be limitations with respect to physical differences
between calcs. I (,unfortunately?) am not the person to do this
(if its possible, viable, or even desirable) as my programming
skills aren't quite at that level(YET). I would be interested in
hearing everyones' thoughts on this. Finally a disclaimer, I am
not a big time programmer where calculators are concerned, my
thing is desktop computers. Thus, I don't have a complete knowledge
of how these things would work. The big issue here, though, is this
once compiled would the TI-BASIC(now ASM) be larger than their
original size?
(remove the X from my E-Mail address to write)
Jeremy L. Crabtree