Posted by rjones2102 How's the weather over there? I am English and live in Australia. I am coming back to the UK for a holiday in a few weeks. Hence the question! Back on topic.... I am a crazy inventor and an ex TV engineer (ex meaning 20 years ago). I have electronics skills to some degree and as an ex IT systems manager I have good high level programming language skills but no low level language skills. Hence... with no assembly language skills, I have created a potential product based on the Picaxe. I certainly understand it is not really designed to be a commercial micro but unless I outsource, I am limited in my choices. Would PicBasic Pro be any better or do I maybe need to stretch my skills to a processor I can program in C. Based on your explanation of the interpreted languages being the potential source of problems, it seems perhaps I wouldn't really be moving much further forward. I should have asked these questions in my first post really! Thanks mate Rich --Previous Message--
on September 3, 2007, 9:44 am, in reply to "Re: Picaxe in Safety Critical Systems"
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Thanks for that Hippy,
: Referring to your article on using
: Picaxe in Safety Critical Systems, I
: was just wondering what the
: difference between using Picaxe and
: any other processor might be. Are
: they unreliable in any way?
:
: Except for processors specifically
: designed for safety critical
: working, I don't think the PICAXE is
: much less reliable than any other
: processor, just that reliability is
: not guaranteed.
:
: In respect of the PICAXE being a
: pre-programmed Basic Interpreter,
: there's the potential of a lack of
: reliability in the creation of the
: firmware which has to be used, where
: errors may have crept in but have
: not been detected, which compound
: any reliability issues there may be
: with the underlying processor
: hardware.
:
: For all manufacturers, I do not
: think it is so much
: "reliability" in the sense
: of likely failure, as not being
: willing to guarantee operation as
: documented in every possible
: situation, simply because it is so
: hard to test every potential
: situation.
:
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