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Hello Ralph,

I'm pretty much into C and assembly but done lots of other ones of a bygone
era like Fortran Algol Basic and others but you mentioned Forth.

In the last ATMEL journal #5 for Summer 2005 there was an article about
qForth on page 46 to support their 4 bit family of MARC4 microcontrollers.
Maybe there are other versions around. Might be something to ask your ATMEL
contact and see what is available if you need such a compiler.

Jim Hatley





----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ralph Hilton" <ralph@ralphhilton.org>
To: <AVR-Chat@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Saturday, October 01, 2005 6:04 PM
Subject: Re: [AVR-Chat] Re: (OT) PICAXE


> On Sat, 01 Oct 2005 19:40:38 -0500 you wrote:
>
> >On Mon, 2005-09-19 at 20:07 -0700, Larry Barello wrote:
> >> Given that this is an AVR forum, not a PIC one, let me plug a product
> >> that I have found very useful:  BASCOM.  A free 4k limit compiler is
> >> available and supports most AVR chips.  The BASIC dialect is plenty
> >> powerful, lots of library support (LCD, one wire, switches, AT
> >> keyboard, graphics displays, etc) and runs circles around anything
> >> Parallax has to offer.  Full support (some specialized libraries and
> >> 128k limit) is $60, but I have never run out of space (granted I only
> >> use it for small quick projects).
> >
> >  Only problem is I have never succeeded in getting anything to compile
> >in BASCM-AVR.   Has some strange syntactical requirements for declaring
> >variables, apparently.
>
> I did contemplate Bascom when I started with AVRs. For me the quality,
friendliness and
> helpfulness of support was important. I joined a few lists. I found the
Bascom list
> unfriendly and somewhat dominated by characters I found distasteful. In
contrast the CVAVR
> list was friendly, helpful and supportive. The ICCAVR list also seemed to
be a helpful
> place. I haven't found Basic to be a particularly versatile language and
avoid it whenever
> possible. As things stand I don't see an alternative to C/C++ . If there
were a decent and
> inexpensive Forth compiler available I would probably have gone for that
as I love
> screwing up my brain cells with RPN and still use my antique and beloved
HP11C and HP16C
> calculators.
>
>
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