Re: A92: C Compiler on the TI
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Re: A92: C Compiler on the TI
"Aaron Hill" <serac@lightmail.com> writes:
> > > There already is a C compiler for the TI89 and 92+. It's called TIGCC
> >
> > I guess he was talking about an on-calc compiler which I find completely
> > useless.
>
> I wouldn't find an on-calc C compiler useless but impossible. None of the
> TI platforms have the resources for a decent, on-calc C compiler. So then
> any possible compiler would be useless.
yes, that was my idea.
useless is probably not the best word... But well... I barely see myself
trying to code some C program with my 89 keyboard. Even a 92 keyboard would
not be that usefull.
>
> It seems that there has been of late much discussion about writing on-calc
> assemblers, compilers, and other programming languages. Probably the main
> reason being is that we do not always have a computer available to program
> our calculators. Sure I can remember many times in math class, I'd wished
> I could program my 92 (excluding TI-BASIC). I usually just wrote out some
> instructions on paper with the intent to try them when I got home. What I
> wonder now is how good an on-calc assembler would have been? I don't know
> about you, but I've crashed my calculator more times then I have crashed a
> computer in my life. The on-calc assembler probably would be the one that
> crashed, because I had a bad source file.
>
> What I'm trying to get to is that our wonderful TI calculators, that we so
> fondly call computers, are nothing more than an embedded-system. They are
> no better than your thermostat, microwave, washing machine, etc. . . .
exactly.
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