On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, david casal wrote:
On Sun, 24 Nov 2002, arm pdlist wrote: maybe check out: http://mrogalsky.web.wesleyan.edu/otherthings/voltage-midi/voltage-midi.html some of us here have used the 'basic stamp' for sensor data to MIDI conversion, with good success. it is programmable in BASIC, works through the serial port, and is not -too- expensive...
May I remind people that:
- BASIC might be the language that has the most widely differing
dialects. For example, there may be tons of variations within the C/C++ family, or within the LISP/Scheme family, but they don't go to nearly the same extent of gross incompatibility that BASICs do.
- All efforts to standardize BASIC have failed, mostly because 80's
microcomputer producers didn't care about compatibility, and then they disappeared, and after that, the only significant remaining BASIC-frenzy company was Microsoft.
- The BASICstamp language is a cross between BASIC and assembly language.
It bears almost no resemblance to any other dialect of BASIC I've used. It is only slightly friendlier than assembly language. I think the main reasons why that chip sells is because it's called BASIC, which sounds (well...) basic and easy, and because it triggers memories of a first microcomputer programming experience 20 years ago using an almost completely different language of the same name.
Mathieu Bouchard http://artengine.ca/matju