[gioscarab]

Ciao, yes I agree with you, I will work to remove parentheses from functions. What you would suggest instead of the arduino function names? You are right also about next and continue, thank you. The fact that the machine language is an ASCII string looks like really handy for many different reasons.

[sgtnoodle]

I actually suggest keeping the parentheses, and updating the system functions to also use them. That way, you can potentially more easily support nesting of compound expressions in function calls.

Re: naming for IO functions, it's really up to you. I personally try to avoid abbreviations for readability, except for incredibly common ones.

One idea:

init_pin(index, mode) get_pin(index) get_pin_mode(index) set_pin_mode(index, mode)

Or CamelCase, InitPin, GetPin, etc.

Mode is an enum with values for input, input_pullup, input_pulldown, output_low, output_high.

For getting timestamps:

milliseconds() microseconds()

For computing deltas in time between two timestamps correctly with rollover (Provided by the system in case the data type is unsigned. Returns 0 if t2 > t1):

time_left(t1, t2)

[gioscarab]

I really need some help on real-time operative systems, the interface for windows is more or less ready, and the code should work on win out of the box, it should be rather simple to create a console program that can:

BIPLAN compile program.txt (compiles in program.bp/bip/bipl)

BIPLAN run program.bp/bip/bipl

would be helpful and fun to have it running on windows or linux.