Picaxe line restrictions?

[artswan]

I have been using Picaxe microprocessors in my robotic designs for
about a year now, and I love it. However, one of the constant
criticisms I find listed on the net about Picaxes is the limited lines
of code they can store (600 lines for X series devices). Considering
this line count does not include white spaces and blank lines, to me
that seems like a lot of code space. I was wanting to know how many
robotics hobbyists out there use more than 600 lines of code in their
robot designs? Like I said, 600 lines seems like a lot of code lines
for one person to write.

 

[artswan]

Is that in assembly or basic? Picaxe is programmed in a Basic similar
to Parallax's processors.

 

[Spehro Pefhany]

I have been using Picaxe microprocessors in my robotic designs for
about a year now, and I love it. However, one of the constant
criticisms I find listed on the net about Picaxes is the limited lines
of code they can store (600 lines for X series devices). Considering
this line count does not include white spaces and blank lines, to me
that seems like a lot of code space. I was wanting to know how many
robotics hobbyists out there use more than 600 lines of code in their
robot designs? Like I said, 600 lines seems like a lot of code lines
for one person to write.

Dunno about this "picaxe" thing, but 600 lines of code is nothing, a
mere sigh, a deep breath, a passing thought, a whim, a snap of the
fingers.


Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

 

[Rich Grise]

Is that in assembly or basic? Picaxe is programmed in a Basic similar
to Parallax's processors.

The one I saw the data sheet of said Basic, I think. It is definitely
not assembly! 600 lines of assembly code could, say, flash an LED.

Cheers!
Rich

 

[Spehro Pefhany]

The one I saw the data sheet of said Basic, I think. It is definitely
not assembly! 600 lines of assembly code could, say, flash an LED.

Cheers!
Rich

Regardless, 600 normal lines of ASM, Basic or C is pretty much a toy
program.



Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

 

[John Larkin]

The one I saw the data sheet of said Basic, I think. It is definitely
not assembly! 600 lines of assembly code could, say, flash an LED.

Cheers!
Rich

I did a fire alarm system remote mux box, up to 64 supervised contact
closure or analog i/o points, 4-channel software single-slope adc,
software uart, software fsk modem (well, transmit direction) that used
a 6802 uP and one 2708 (1 kbyte) eprom. But it wasn't pretty.

Most of my embedded 68K programs run 4-12k lines of assembly code. A
typical PowerBasic test prog will run similar numbers.

John

 

[Joseph2k]

Regardless, 600 normal lines of ASM, Basic or C is pretty much a toy
program.



Best regards,
Spehro Pefhany

Back in the day, when i was first training on navy computers
(transistorized, no IC's) 512 words of 15 bit memory, 3 I/O addresses,
the only language was binary, typical students wrote programs with I/O,
mathematical evaluation, and were even useful some times. The famous
useful program would take up to 100 raw test scores, and compute the mean,
the standard deviation, and 5 other statistics (used for grading). It did
not have multiply or divide instructions. So a chunk of the program went
to those subroutines. This was some decades ago.