Joseph Apuzzo wrote: > I am working on a presentation on the Raspberry Pi for early next year. > I plan on demonstrating how the "pi" can extend popular programming > languages outside of the computer in to the real world. > The Arduino requires one to programming in a Basic like language, where as > the power of the "Pi" lies with the ability to program in almost any > language.
So, one thing to consider is that the Pi runs a resonably complete linux distro. As such, you should be able to develop for it in just about any language supported under Linux (runtime caveats aside. I'm right now shaking my fist at LLVM's ARM support as I try to get Crack running on it). To cite your example, the "Haskell" section seems to be alive and well in Raspian. There's kind of an important general point there: though wimpy by desktop standards, for $25 the Pi is still a pretty powerful platform. So it represents an opportunity to take a lot of Linux applications and convert them into dedicated appliances. The "MAME Machine" would be a good example of this. You might want to come at it from that perspective. > > So the question for comment is what "languages" do we care about? For > example here are the most popular "Pi" languages: > > Python > C / C++ > Perl > PHP ( and thus HTML, XML, etc. ) > Ruby > > What is not really feasible is Java do to "Pi" do constrained memory ( only > 128Mb of core memory is not really enough for a Java VM ). > Thus other then the languages above is there any other that people use that > would be of interest? > If so please provide an argument as to why it would be reverent. > For instance I need a really REALLY good reason why "I need to turn on a > light via a haskel program". > > -- > /** Joe Apuzzo > ** Call: KD2AKU > ** PGP/GPG: key ID BB5C7 > **/ > ============================================================================= michaelMuller = [email protected] | http://www.mindhog.net/~mmuller ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- We are the music-makers, and we are the dreamers of dreams - Arthur O'Shaughnessy ============================================================================= _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College Nov 7 - Typography: Physical Art to Digital Art Dec 5 - Sysadmin Panel
