Re: Using Forth at work

rickman wrote: 
I will be starting a new project at work and need a debugger for an AVR
board.  It will have a serial port to talk to the outside world and a
few accessories such as a keypad, an LCD and a second serial port to
connect to a GPS receiver.

I would like to use forth to debug it, either as an umbilical or as a
burn and learn target.  But our software department is separate from
the hardware department and I don't them getting into my debugging
decisions.  When I asked the software guy if he minded if I wrote my
own debugging code he was happy to oblige since that reduces his part
of the bid and his risk.  But now I need to find a way to get a forth
into our budget without anyone having the chance to ask why I'm using
Forth instead of C.

I am considering calling it an interactive debugger, but I don't know
if that will be transparent or not.  So far, it is in my bid and has
not generated much attention since it is not really a line item yet,
just part of a total for material for bringing up the boards.  But we
are having a CEO mandated bid scrub Monday and I need ideas for how to
keep it under the radar.  Also, I am not an experienced Forth user, so
are there any pitfalls I need to worry about if it does come out of the
closet and I have to explain why I want to use it?

Invite Mike Keesling, aka blueeyedpop, to respond. Google in this group for his email. I can send it to you privately, but I won't post it.

Jerry
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