C translator for calculator project

[Maximilian Hohmann]

Hello!

(05-06-2019 03:58 PM)David Hayden Wrote:  You're better off thinking of this as structured keystroke programs (call it SKIP?). It would add the control structures that Garth mentioned, named variables, etc. Heck, if done right, it might even lend itself to multiple backends for different calculators.

SKIP sounds good to me. After all, what are programmable calculators used for in the year 2019 (if at all)?

I have programmed a lot in C over the years, but for me it only works if I add as many comments as possible. Otherwise already a month or so after writing the program it will cost me ten times as much time to figure out what it is supposed to to than writing it in the first place. But enter all those comments on a calculator keyboard? Certainly not. So a programming language which mainly explains itself (like BASIC or SKIP) seems much more appropriate to me.

Unless someone can come up with a FORTRAN interpreter/compiler on a pocket calculator. That would really change the foundations of my world :-)

Regards
Max