Some of you will remember that I planned a “System Diagram” in Plain! That was a block of configuration code that tied event on modules together. This is exactly what I plan to use UML State Diagrams for. In this diagram we generate a Temp Changed event on one device that is sent to a…
This is basically the same diagram as I drew before, but with a few more details.
One key component of any Parser is the Expression Parser. This one is used to parse mathematical or logical expressions into a list of micro-statements. Plain have a separate instruction to execute math, but the parser need to build the list correct. Example : 4 + 5 * 3 If we add 4+5 we get…
One of the challenges I have with Worldpress is to be able to show source code in here, so I apologize for the bad quality on the examples above. The examples show one of my Plain test examples in 2 different syntax styles. the one to left is the currently chosen one and the one…
The Assembler itself will read Plain source code and generate a RTL file that is downloaded to the device. RTL (Real Time Linker) is located on the target device and will convert RTL format to executable Plain VM instructions. Most modern Assemblers are very similar to Compilers. The main difference is that the Assembler have…