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Geoffg Guru  Joined: 06/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 3194 |
Just out of interest, yesterday I counted the lines of code in MMBasic. Overall it is just over 46,000 lines of code and comments (excluding blank lines). A Google search reveals that that is about the same size as the King James bible. Even more interesting, the core of the language is just 4,500 lines. This is the interpreter and the standard BASIC commands and functions like PRINT, LIST, etc. Most of the code (over 40,000 lines) is devoted to special Maximite functions like USB, the full screen editor, I2C, serial comms, etc. One reason why I did this count is because I am helping a multinational manufacturer to integrate MMBasic into a piece of analytical equipment. This will enable users to write programs on the machine that can interpret the data being produced by the machine and present it in a more human friendly format. So, MMBasic is moving beyond the humble Maximite. Just thought that you might be interested, Geoff Geoff Graham - http://geoffg.net |
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crackerjack Senior Member  Joined: 11/07/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 164 |
Fantastic news that MMBasic is branching out onto other hardware platforms Geoff. I have read somewhere (how reliable the source, who can say?) that embedded software costs around $15 to $40 dollars per line. That's quite a range and I guess the lower end would be fairly poor in quality compared to the higher end. It does however translate to a cost for MMBasic of between $690,000.00 and $1,840,000.00 (if such a value could be really calculated - please remember this is just meant to be a thought-provoking response to the original post, not a precise economical analysis). Of course the quality of MMBasic (from all contributors) is on the high-end of the scale as far as I can tell. All in all, to me, MMBasic is priceless... |
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marcwolf Senior Member Joined: 08/06/2009 Location: AustraliaPosts: 119 |
Congrats. MMBasic is a really powerful language and would be invaluable in process control and data aquistion systems. To beable do to real time filtering on incoming streams. Looking forward to seeing what equipment it appear on Washing Machine If Smell(Socks) > 5 then
Call Heavy_Wash(50) Else Call Light_Wash(10) End If Coding Coding Coding.. Keep those keyboards coding.. RAW CODE!!!!! |
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djuqa Guru Joined: 23/11/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 447 |
No I hope it is for Brewing Equipment [code]For X = ColdBeer to Drink [/code] VK4MU MicroController Units |
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| MMFast Newbie  Joined: 27/02/2012 Location: SingaporePosts: 1 |
Looks like Geoff is far more effective than the average coder. Largely written in 8 days, lets say 20 hours per day, 160 hours, at say, lets be generous, $100 per hour, thats $16000 for 46000 lines, that puts Geoff at about 0.35c a line. Even if the 8 days didnt include all the design work and working through the original basic version written by a farmers wife somewhere in the US, call it $1 per line designed and delivered. Even at $2 per line, still a bargain. Great to hear it is finding a home in a real world application. MMBasic will become pretty big I would predict. Wizardry! :) |
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| Geoffg Guru Joined: 06/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 3194 |
What was written in the first cut was just the minimal core interpreter. About 3,000 lines if I remember correctly. Over the past 18 months it has filled out to what you see today and that includes code contributed by people such as Gerard Sexton. So, sorry. No superman here. Geoff Geoff Graham - http://geoffg.net |
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