MBASIC is actually more like a macro-assembler.
It is not interpreted. It points to blocks of optimized machine code that are strung
together by the Basic language like "blueprint".
Not a true compiler, but much faster than any interpreted Basic language.
For straight DSP stuff, there are many more appropriate groups.
The original platform was an 8031, it was a Wiard 300 series module named the "Music
Computer". I prototyped it but never wrote any software for it. It was only 8 bit I/O.
Before that I used a PAIA 8700 computer controlled voltage source. That was written in
assembly and typed in with a hex keyboard (like ya did in 1979).
I don't think anyone cares about the processor or language you use for your personal
computer voltage source.
When I was in college, you programmed in assembly or Fortran, then Basic, then it was
Pascal, then C, then C++, then Java. It just depends on when you went to school.
I started writing BASIC at age 11, in 1967, when it was the new miracle language....
hahahahahaha (crazed cackling of veteran driven insane by the computer wars)
--- In
ComputerVoltageSources@yahoogroups.com, "Mike Marsh" <michaelmarsh@...>
wrote:
>
>
> A generally accepted tenet in the programming world is that if you
> need speed and closeness to the processor, then there is no avoiding
> C. BASIC is a terrific language, particularly for beginners. DO all
> projects have to be on a single platform? Maybe not so much...
>
> Mike
>
> --- In ComputerVoltageSources@yahoogroups.com, Eric Brombaugh
> <ebrombaugh@> wrote:
> >
> > The big downside is that the development environment
> > is not BASIC but C. I'm comfortable in C, but I agree
> > with Grant's earlier observation that BASIC is a great
> > enabler, allowing a broad range of users to quickly
> > come up to speed and contribute. There is the
> > possibility of porting a freely-available BASIC
> > interpreter such as Brandy-BASIC to the ARM7 though,
> > and this is on my road map.
> >
> > I'd be interested in any comments & criticism from the
> > group.
> >
> > Eric
> >
> >
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