> On May 2, 2024, at 4:23 PM, Gordon Henderson via cctalk
> <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
>
> ...
> I'm told Lua is the new Basic or Python is the new Basic, but the best thing
> for me about Basic on the old micros was being able to turn the computer on
> and type Basic into it immediately.... And to that end, I decided to
> re-target my C Basic it to a bare metal framework for the Raspberry Pi I'd
> been working on - boots to Basic in... well, it's not as quick as an Apple II
> or BBC Micro, but under 2 seconds. It's a bit faster on a Pi Zero as there's
> no USB to initialise...
That's why I've been playing with FORTH on my Raspberry Pico microcontrollers
(Travis Bemann's "Zeptoforth" dialect, to be precise). It's nice and compact,
and it boots in milliseconds. Multicore, multitasking, lots of library
modules... nice.
paul
