I just want to say thank you to all who responded and offered helpful suggestions to my initial post. The seller emailed me the driver as a zipped file. When I...
... Hi Dave. Seems to me you've made 3 especially important points here, and which are exactly what I've been saying. 1. "I was not using Forth, per se. I was...
Hi Jon, David, Is this to minimize the static variables? But if they are local, they go away anyway! Must make it hard to keep track of what you pushed on ...
... <snip> ... The "user ... cheap PIC. ... This discussion started with the merits of a high-level, Turing-Complete language and you've taken it way off...
... Smalltalk doesn't have types, so there's no issue with type casting. A variable can be bound to any object. You don't push things on the stack with...
Robin asked: Wednesday, January 30, 2008 10:46 PM ... Sure, Robin, let me see if I can explain some points of interest. Sorry I've been distracted for a day or...
Gmitsuoka said: Thursday, January 31, 2008 7:39 AM ... Okay George, I hear your position. I don't agree. But let me offer a challenge back. Using Google, find...
Hi Randy, ... To me this is a very artificial example, and I doubt very highly you'd ever see a real robot with a sequence of commands like that. Sure in a ...
Dave Hylands said: Friday, February 01, 2008 11:34 PM ... Sorry to say, Dave. It is a real example. You're arguing against history. It was done in the early...
Dave Hylands said: Friday, February 01, 2008 11:34 PM ... Well, as it happens, if I were programming it, it would likely be fine. What I'd do is define LEFT as...
Hi, I just have a question about the OPT101 and the dark error adjustment. I want to know if it is possible to make a dark-error adjustment circuit for the...
... Hi Randy. I would imagine that the format of main() is more individual programmer-dependent than anything else. My main() routines usually look very much...
please help me in my first project, that is robot maze. In my robot i am using 3 sensors IR sharp GPD12 at each side of robot. so I am facing problem in...
On Sat, 02 Feb 2008 17:08:18 -0000, "dan michaels" <oric_dan@...> ... Depending on your environment, you can get close with an AVR and gcc. Here's how I...
dan michaels said: Saturday, February 02, 2008 11:08 AM ... I agree. But what shapes the individual? ... I'm going to argue that you program that way because...
... This is definitely a possibility, in my case. I transitioned into Forth after first learning to program in Basic, and writing a lot of obtuse spaghetti...
... through seemingly endless edit, compile, link, download, test, repeat cycles, or else write shell programs for doing such. It's just not the same. ... ...
Hi Randy, ... I find that extremely difficult to believe. So far I haven't seen an credible examples comparing lines of code or code size. I've heard about...
PeterBalch asked: Thursday, January 31, 2008 9:55 AM ... No, Forth's are usually resident in the target. Only takes (typ.) 8K to have a full Forth interpreter...
Dave Hylands said: Saturday, February 02, 2008 1:12 PM ... Well, again, there's a real world example I reference. If I'd made the same claim as the guy who was...
Jon ... I use Delphi on a rather slow XP machine. I just edited a typical program, then pressed F9 to compile and run it. From pressing the key to the program ...
Dave ... I think your musings are the most useful contribution anyone has made so far. Your arguments seems to boil down to: Forth encourages you to write...
Randy ... As usual, your insight into horses is fascinating. However, it doesn't prove your point. I was suggesting that animals use their feet to sense the...
Try this: http://www.societyofrobots.com/programming_wavefront.shtml John societyofrobots.com ... -- John Palmisano Robotics Specialist Naval Research...
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Hi Dan. Thanks for the kudos! I have added a few comments in the text below. ... . That is what amazed me on second thought. I had this experience in my hands...
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