[fpc-devel] Freepascal in microcontrollers

[Jeff Duntemann]

This is very blue-sky, but it would be an interesting enhancement to 
Lazarus to target ARM or Atmel AVR CPUs in the manner of the Processing 
language/IDE:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Processing_%28programming_language%29

It's how you create software for the Arduino boards that are so popular 
here in the US. I started out in embedded processors, and I can program 
in C-like languages, but they make me itch. Pascal would be better.

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--JD--

Michael Schnell wrote:
> IMHO, nowadays, 8 (and 16) bit processors only make sense for very 
> small projects. Those are very hardware specific and thus using C here 
> does make sense.
>
> OTOH, 32 bit processors have become very cheap and handy. For embedded 
> projects, IMHO, especially processors that are programmed as 
> "ip-Cores" in FPGAs are very interesting, so that porting the FP 
> compiler could make sense. I am considering to do this port for the 
> NIOS CPU (that runs in Altera FPGAs). I don't intend to start that 
> project very soon, but if someone is interested in starting the port, 
> I of course will try to help.
>
> -Michael
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