I'm wondering if anybody here has tried this 'Great Cow BASIC' ? - a *free* BASIC compiler for PIC and AVR
Odd name, but might be nice for those who like to program in BASIC and find C not so nice to read/write. I haven't tried it, but perhaps somebody here has?
From the site - Great Cow BASIC is a BASIC compiler for PIC and AVR microcontrollers. It lets you to program in BASIC instead of having to learn assembly. It's also completely free!
Great Cow BASIC has been written with three main aims - to remove the need for repetitive assembly commands, to produce efficient code, and to make it easy to take code written for one chip and run it on another. It hides many of the more confusing parts of microcontroller programming, making it suitable for beginners and those who don't like assembly.
The syntax of Great Cow BASIC is based on that of QBASIC/FreeBASIC, but with some alterations to suit the vastly different system that it compiles for. Great Cow BASIC will allow you to program most 8 bit PIC microcontrollers (10F, 12C, 12F, 16C, 16F, 18C and 18F chips), and also includes near-complete support for most AVR microcontrollers (Classic AVR, Tiny AVR and Mega AVR).
http://gcbasic.sourceforge.net/about.html (http://gcbasic.sourceforge.net/about.html)
They also have a graphical version, where non-programmer types can apparently program in a flowchart like environment - good for raw beginners I expect, though no doubt too limiting if you're doing anything serious.
http://gcbasic.sourceforge.net/index.html (http://gcbasic.sourceforge.net/index.html)
Cool find. Did you try it out? I'll post it up.
Sorry for the delayed reply, I've been away. No, I haven't had a chance to play with it and likely won't for quite some time, as a lot on at the moment, I just figured perhaps somebody here might have played with it or might have a chance to do so.