Looking at the docs on ZBasic can be daunting.
There are several hundred different instructions.
The truth is useful programs can be written
using only a hand full of different instructions.
In a typical program 90% of all instructions are
done by a half a dozen different popular instructions.
This has been true since I started programming in 1975.
I suspect if you took a class in programming they would not
tell you this and have you learn all 300. Deadly
boring :)
Only add to your repertory when you run into a difficult
problem.
Paul Lamar
Paul,
That's exactly what I had suspected. The difficult part is separating the
wheat from the chaff.
Mark
Just look up the descriptions of the instructions I use :)
If our schools were smart they would start teaching
programming in kindergarten.
There are math professors
that would disagree with me but I learned early on
that programming can replace calculus.
Paul Lamar
Ok, so I now want to start teaching my soon to be three children
programming. Seeing how it is really only a handful of commands.
But first I must teach me. My wife was glad to learn that programming
is mostly accomplished with only a few statements. She attempted to
learn C in college in the Philippines, when her instructors did'nt
know how it worked to begin with. Only one student out of 40 or so,
got any of it.
I am following all of this, in a couple of weeks I should be
collecting the parts to catch up with you all on building one
of these real time units. For 20 years or so I have wondered
why someone did'nt create this sort of system you are now
designing. It seems so obvious. My wife will gladly help in
learning it, just so she can feel that she conquered running
up to a "dead end" sign on her last attempt.
I have been reading the thread about your Kasuga mill set
up on cnczone, and will contact you here, once again, "in a
couple weeks" when my 65 Porsche is sold.
Mathematics is philosophy. Programmers do it better.
Ed Carver
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