AVR-Chat

In reference to BASCAOM-AVR,
On Sat, 2005-10-01 at 22:01 -0600, Kevin wrote:
> I, and many others here have written hundreds of programs.  There is
> no "strange syntactical requirement" that I'm aware of.  It works just
> like the manual shows, and like you'd expect for a Basic language
> syntax.

  I cannot agree.   I have written , over the years, many thousands of
programs, and a wide variety of languages, including any number of
variants of BASIC.   I have never encoutnered the kinds of probl;ems
with a BASIC interpreter or compiler I have had with BASCOM.

  I have gone through the manual, and done exactly what it says to do,
and all I can get back freom the compiler is that perfectly normal
operations, such as, for example, "a = b^3" are illegal, or that my
variables, which are, indeed, declared, do not exist or are of incorrect
type.

   I went to the BASCOM mailing list with these problems, and got
absoutely NOLTHING but verbal abuse from the denizens thereof.  I
downloaded some exampls of BASCOM code, and attempted to emulate what I
found there, and had no success whatever.


  I will grant that the PROBLEM is something I am doing incorrectly, but
I also assert that the declaration requirements are **NOT** BASIC, nor
even BASIC-like, and that the manuals are inadeqaute, and the support
non-existent.

Tom