2009-10-28 07:16:48.787436+01 by Dan Lyke 3 comments
A month or two ago I was kicking myself for not having implemented a little interpreter and environment to drive some embedded prototyping I was doing. I had a bunch of primitives, all accessible by a basic command line, but no control structure or way to write sets of commands back to disk.
I think Itty Bitty Tiny Basic is exactly what I was looking for.
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#Comment Re: made: 2009-10-29 16:55:59.985713+01 by: Dan Lyke
I didn't go with Tcl or Lua because I was managing my memory map manually (no malloc()), so I wanted something that had its own allocator, and it needs to be a full-on environment: I can shut the device down, grab the SD card, bring it over to a PC and change things, take it back to the device and boot it, but a BASIC environment includes a line editor.
#Comment Re: Sinclair BASIC made: 2009-10-29 13:06:01.153658+01 by: jeff [edit history]
The smallest Basic I ever used was the tiny (4kb ROM) Sinclair BASIC implemented on the Sinclair ZX80 (the first computer I ever purchased). I sold the computer to a Chinese research scientist in 1982, before upgrading to the ubiquitous Commodore 64 in 1983.
#Comment Re: made: 2009-10-29 11:02:50.926116+01 by: spc476
I'm guessing Lua is just too big? Otherwise, at 17,000 lines of ANSI-C you get quite a fun language (garbage collection, lambdas, closures, coroutines and easily extendable and embeddable).
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