On Friday 06 November 2015 04:53:15 andy pugh wrote:

> On 6 November 2015 at 04:29, Fernand Veilleux <[email protected]> 
wrote:
> > gcode is terrible IMHO.
>
> It's a terrible programming language, but then it was never intended
> to be one.

I wouldn't condem it quite that vociferously.  It has the basic trig 
functions, all the basic control loop stuff, and several ways to do a 
subroutine.  My biggest and loudest bitch is the inability to 
troubleshoot an errant arc move in a subroutine that may have 10 of them 
in it,  it gets blamed on the line that calls the sub.  I have had to 
convert my blanket-chest code from 3 subroutines, to multiple copies of 
the subroutine but inline.  In the process, I probably have 300 LOC out 
of 650 or so that are never executed.  Its a horrible mess, but it 
works.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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