Re: A microcontroller-centric, target-neutral programming language

"Juan Lauda" <me@here.org>
21 Jul 2003 21:32:24 -0400

          From comp.compilers
Related articles
A microcontroller-centric, target-neutral programming language petegray@ieee.org (Pete Gray) (2003-07-15)
Re: A microcontroller-centric, target-neutral programming language me@here.org (Juan Lauda) (2003-07-21)
Re: A microcontroller-centric, target-neutral programming language jan.homuth@altium.com (Jan Homuth) (2003-07-21)
Re: A microcontroller-centric, target-neutral programming language mark.piffer@chello.at (2003-07-21)
Re: A microcontroller-centric, target-neutral programming language jkirwan@easystreet.com (Jonathan Kirwan) (2003-07-23)
| List of all articles for this month |
From: "Juan Lauda" <me@here.org>
Newsgroups: comp.arch.embedded,comp.compilers
Date: 21 Jul 2003 21:32:24 -0400
Organization: Compilers Central
References: 03-07-103
Keywords: design
Posted-Date: 21 Jul 2003 21:32:24 EDT

"Pete Gray" <petegray@ieee.org> wrote in message
> I'm about to embark on a project to produce a microcontroller-centric,
> target-neutral programming language.
> I'd like to hear views regarding the pros and cons of Industry or Academic
> sponsorship versus the Open Source approach.


Why is this a good idea? Surely abstracting machine word lengths,
byte ordering and access to onboard peripherals will only increase
execution times and executable code footprints? Small, fast
executable code and microcontrollers go hand in hand.

Post a followup to this message

Return to the comp.compilers page.
Search the comp.compilers archives again.