At the last BLU talk someone asked about what tools you use to code on a Raspberry Pi. Mostly you hear Python mentioned. Here's an article talking about using Perl for GUI apps on the Pi:
wxPerl on Raspbian http://binaryperl.blogspot.co.uk/2012/11/fun-things-still-happen.html The foundation is supporting Python as the official educational language. It looked like too much fun to be left to Python to me, so I did some preliminary investigation about support for Perl. If this thing turns out to be popular it would be nice if educational users were exposed to Perl on it. The first thing to check was that programming the GPIO is possible in Perl and sure enough , Device::BCM2835 is available on CPAN. In a subsequent posting the author talks about how he set up his development environment, running Raspbian (Debian), in a Qemu virtual machine on Windows: http://binaryperl.blogspot.co.il/2012/11/wxperl-on-raspbian.html Sounds like he hasn't received his Raspberry Pi hardware yet, and thus hasn't yet proven out that this code works on the real hardware. -Tom _______________________________________________ Hardwarehacking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking
