BASIC, yes! was Re: TypeMatic Rate

Barry,

BASIC's not so bad. (you don't need line numbers anymore)

I know of at least FOUR popular cnc controllers written using BASIC.
Successfully controlling several hundreds of machines!

It's the results that matter, not the tool, IMO. Modern versions of
BASIC (like Powerbasic) are compiled and include the ability to do
inline assembly, use C++ libraries, dynamically allocate memory, work
with multi-megabyte strings, UDT's etc. (And supports structured and
OOP programming).

BASIC deals much better innately with strings (like g code) than C.

Ballendo (Satisfied Powerbasic user)

P.S. If EMC were written in BASIC, LOTS more people would understand
and use it, IMO.

--- In CAD_CAM_EDM_DRO@y..., "fast1994gto" <beking@h...> wrote:
> Here it is in (ugh) BASIC:
>
> 10 30 OUT &H70, &H13
> 20 PRINT HEX$(INP(&H71));
>
> Barry
>