Is 500 Lines of PBASIC too little?

Archiver

I was browsing Parallax's BASIC Stamp offerings, and found every
qualification to meet my needs except one: The statement that it has
500 Lines of PBASIC doesn't seems like quite a lot; does anyone have
experience with this? Is 500 lines of PBASIC enough for most uses or
is it too little?

Thanks,
Ben

Archiver

In a message dated 8/29/01 9:02:34 AM Central Daylight Time,
bwoodacre@y... writes:


> I was browsing Parallax's BASIC Stamp offerings, and found every
> qualification to meet my needs except one: The statement that it has
> 500 Lines of PBASIC doesn't seems like quite a lot; does anyone have
> experience with this? Is 500 lines of PBASIC enough for most uses or
>

Keep in mind that PBASIC was designed for embedded applications, so one line
of code can do quite a bit of work. I've written some fairly serious
applications for the Stamp and never run out of space. Efficient coding is
the key.

If you do, in fact, need more code space, the BS2e, BS2sx and BS2p all have
multiple (8) program banks and a shared RAM space (not part of the normal
variables) that can be used to pass data back and forth between them.

-- Jon Williams
-- Applications Engineer, Parallax




[noparse][[/noparse]Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Archiver

You can fit a butt-load of code into the BS2's, and the multiple program
banks make it easy to write a large program.

Best thing to do is write the code you want, then study examples in the
various Parallax documents to help you improve the speed and decrease the
memory used. Lots of good tips in the educational documents, and they are
free. The Nuts & Volts books are good also, and cover a broader spectrum of
applications. I'm about 1/2 way through book one and already it has helped
me code more better <grin>/

---

Original Message

---

> > I was browsing Parallax's BASIC Stamp offerings, and found every
> > qualification to meet my needs except one: The statement that it has
> > 500 Lines of PBASIC doesn't seems like quite a lot; does anyone have
> > experience with this? Is 500 lines of PBASIC enough for most uses or
> >
>
> Keep in mind that PBASIC was designed for embedded applications, so one
line
> of code can do quite a bit of work. I've written some fairly serious
> applications for the Stamp and never run out of space. Efficient coding
is
> the key.
>
> If you do, in fact, need more code space, the BS2e, BS2sx and BS2p all
have
> multiple (8) program banks and a shared RAM space (not part of the normal
> variables) that can be used to pass data back and forth between them.