Adding to the code fight. It's a pity we still have to deal with G-code. It's not 1960's when machines came with equivalent of few hundred bytes of memory and/or paper tape reader.
Why is it that people need to remember some Gxxxx to move a tool along x or y axis in increments or absolute coordinates when more human readable command would do? At one point one would expect to see G-code make progress into something like HP-GL/2 with additional axis, CNC specific commands, and modern functions calls. At least you have two letters for a command in HP-GL. Some technologies just don't make any reasonable progress. For old machines I get it, but seeing the same thing in new ones? It would also make sense to see files with CNC code wrapped in json or yaml format these days. As machines become computerized, it would be trivial to get rid of G(M)-code and move on. Modern TVs for example can download a program from the network and run it like "smart phones" do. Why not have "smart CNC machines"? On 01/31/2016 09:59 PM, Jerry Scharf wrote: > Eric Altman, author of sendmail said that he received "a lifetime of I hated it from day one I had to deal with it in Solaris and later Linux! Switched to exim and later to postfix as soon as they were usable. Why the hell would one need to create an "inhumane configuration files" for critical application I'll never understand but there are other things in software world I don't understand either. > loathing for the use of m4." m4 could probably do it, but it will be the > most obtuse, write only code imaginable. Been there, done that, have the > scars. > > jerry -- Rafael ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3 App instances at just $35/Month Monitor end-to-end web transactions and take corrective actions now Troubleshoot faster and improve end-user experience. Signup Now! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=267308311&iu=/4140 _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list Emc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
