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MicroBlocks

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Posted: 05:33am 25 Oct 2012

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Yes, bit1,bit2 etc is better.

@< and @> are both rotate, this can be usefull for the walkingled or with stepper motors that go through a sequence.
It is not considering sign.
the ->> will shift right and the new bit shifted in will be the same as the highest bit. This is more for doing a quick divide by 2 (or 4,8,16 etc)

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Maybe things like

Array<int> A = [1..10]
Array<int> A = [1-10,15,30-35]

Maybe associative arrays? Or am I getting carried away :)

A "boolean" data type?

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Yeah, the shorthand for the array values is nice. Will have a try.

A dictionary (hash table) is not so difficult, and it is already needed internally.

A "boolean" or "bool" will be other names for a "bit1"

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jdh2550
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Posted: 05:43am 25 Oct 2012

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TZAdvantage said
Yeah, the shorthand for the array values is nice. Will have a try.

The ruby language has a rich and consistent syntax if you want to get some ideas for how to layout your syntax - not suggesting any particular feature of ruby just that they seem to have done a good job with consistency and readability without being overly verbose.

Just a thought.

graynomad

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Posted: 06:11am 25 Oct 2012

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Looks good, unfortunately I don't use PICs, let me know if you port it to LPCs :)

Rob Gray, AKA the Graynomad, www.robgray.com

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Posted: 10:34am 26 Feb 2013

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This interpreter has been on the backburner for a while because i was caught by surprise by the introduction of TypeScript by Microsoft. (And by the decision to design a CMM clone with add-on 'blox')
I like TypeScript a lot, and am now studying hard how it is done.
Everything is open source so if you are curious have a look here .

The way they uses classes,interfaces, modules, datatypes etc is very clean and i would like to do the same but just add more datatypes.
Having an editor to play around in helps me a lot and many things can be tried out.
This project is still active and when i get more familiar with Typescript i have a good base to extend on.
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JohnS
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Posted: 10:16pm 26 Feb 2013

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Oh great, another language.

Let's see if it takes off.

John

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Posted: 10:38am 28 Feb 2013

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TZAdvantage said I like TypeScript a lot, and am now studying hard how it is done.

Do you know Espruino? Would be nice to get it work on the pic32 too..

http://www.espruino.com/

PS: Lua: long time back I posted a benchmark here - pic32lua had been the second fastest after the C.. And the below port works fine

http://www.askrprojects.net/software/pic32lua/index.html

Edited by pito 2013-03-01

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