AVR-Chat

On Feb 7, 2006, at 10:04 AM, Michael Jones wrote:

> My own gut feeling on this is that any programming language has its  
> pros and cons and learning to use a particular language adeptly  
> does take an investment of time and practice. Forth has always  
> looked interesting to me as well but there aren't that many people  
> that you can turn to when you have a problem and even fewer if it  
> involves the AVR. C seems to be a good mix for microcontroller  
> programming and there are lots of people out there to help if you  
> get stuck.

FORTH really clicks with some people. What its exceptionally good for  
is creating a user-extensible monitor, command shell and macro  
language. Almost unbelievable what one can do in 4k bytes with FORTH.  
Or even 2k.

Last time I seriously used FORTH was prototyping 68HC11 hardware. In  
spite of having a full C compiler and Nohau ICE, FORTH and a serial  
terminal were the right tools to develop my interface to an RTC, and  
demonstrate the datasheet was incomplete.

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David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@HiWAAY.net
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