[zooko at zooko.com: Re: Arduino frustrations: C is not a higher-order language, and timing is not an optimization]

[Kragen Javier Sitaker]

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Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 22:05:45 -0700
From: Zooko O'Whielacronx <zooko at zooko.com>
To: Kragen Javier Sitaker <kragen at canonical.org>
Subject: Re: Arduino frustrations: C is not a higher-order language, and
	timing is not an optimization

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On Mon, Jan 2, 2012 at 9:19 PM, Kragen Javier Sitaker
<kragen at canonical.org> wrote:
>
> I suspect that sooner or later the Arduino is going to have to switch to either
> ARM (LPC11xx?) or AVR32.  Code written using just the Arduino libraries should
> be pretty easy to port.

Here are some cool-sounding projects/products:

http://leaflabs.com/devices/

Integrated FPGA, and it claims that it does or will make them easy to use!

http://leaflabs.com/2011/09/pymite/

Python! Python is the best language for beginners of all languages
that I have tried.

http://www.bugblat.com/products/cor.html

(This one seems more for pros and less for beginners than the leaflabs one.)

Oh, I see that the Arduino company has announced an ARM product:

http://arduino.cc/blog/2011/09/17/arduino-launches-new-products-in-maker-faire/

But it isn't generally available yet and isn't listed on
http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Hardware yet.

Regards,

Zooko

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