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Of course, it's also a very useful experience. It'll just be a bit hard then to go all the way to the high level - i.e., memory-hungry, garbage-collected, with
by sklogic 12y ago
Of course, it's also a very useful experience.
It'll just be a bit hard then to go all the way to the high level - i.e., memory-hungry, garbage-collected, with elaborate, computationally intensive compilation.
For this you'd need a bit more modern device with enough memory attached. At least something around 16Mb would be nice if you want to implement a decent Lisp. With z80 you'd likely be forced to stay at around C or Basic level of abstraction.
- ido 12y agoPretty sure a 10mhz z80 with 64kb ram can handle a small forth or scheme dialect just fine (You'll have to program those interpreters in asm or c though!) :) It won't be useful/"pragmatic" but I don't think that's what we're after here anyway.
- sklogic 12y agoYes, but this way you'd need some magic - an external C compiler or at least an assembler. Instead of implementing everything from scratch, with most of the code developed on a board itself.