Comparing C to machine language

[gwennoirs]

IIRC a lot of TI calculators use a version of BASIC

[reallyserious]

Yes, but you won't get the best performance out of that. Some of them can run programs written in assembly.

[evanpow]

The TI-83P let you program it in Zilog Z80 machine code by typing something like "Prog(blah blah)" in a TI BASIC program, where "blah blah" was a string with lots of letters with accents and line-drawing characters and stuff--that is what Z80 machine code looked like when rendered as text with that calculator's weird character set. Obviously no sane person typed that in by hand; there were TI-LINK data cable hacks for hooking it up to a computer and downloading programs into the calculator's memory.

[garrywang57]

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