On 12/02/2014 05:29 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: >> Well, that is a matter of opinion, I guess. It is often easier to >> revert to old habits instead of learning new tricks. I know because I >> tend to do that too all too often (boy I feel old now ;-) >> > But I'd bet a bottle of your favorite suds you are chasing me, I turned 80 > almost 2 months back. ;-)
No bets you know you'd lose, that is what I (try to) teach my pupils. Then, 2^4 years ago you would have beaten me by a factor of 2 >> Speaking for my self, I just got fed up with plain gcode's archaics and >> wanted more structure. > > GCodes available loop capabilities can be used for that structure fairly > easily. When I am hand carving such code, making use of those to do step & > repeat can shrink the code drastically. Don't get me wrong, gcode is expressive enough and can do all you like. It is just not like any "modern" procedural language. For me, that makes all the difference between readable and a hellish write-only language (let's not talk about Perl, shall we ;-) One should use the language that is familiar and does the job. That is a personal choice. -- Greetings Bertho (disclaimers are disclaimed) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download BIRT iHub F-Type - The Free Enterprise-Grade BIRT Server from Actuate! Instantly Supercharge Your Business Reports and Dashboards with Interactivity, Sharing, Native Excel Exports, App Integration & more Get technology previously reserved for billion-dollar corporations, FREE http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=157005751&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
