Ken N9VV wrote: > Check out the beautiful job that Bob Cowdery G3UKB is doing with > "Erlang" http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/g3ukb/ > de ken n9vv > > Paul Taylor wrote: >> I'm sure this is one of those questions that can throw-up a multitude >> of answers and recommendations >
Be aware that Erlang is a functional language that is rule base, in other words nothing like Visual Basic or C at all, it takes a different approach to writing software compared to conventional languages. Not that I'm saying that is a bad thing, on the contrary it teaches you to look at problems from a new perspective, it is just different from the usual Algol derived fare. Erlang is being used in this project and in the upcoming release 2.0 of the Flex software as the glue that ties the DSP code to the display/control portion. Because Erlang has a really wonderful messaging system built in, it will be use to separate the display from the DSP so you can even have those functions in different PC's 1000's of miles apart or in different machines running different OS's. If you had never programmed before I would say that a language like Erlang would be a good first language as it teaches approaches to solving problems that are not taught by conventional procedural languages. It's sort of Liquid Plummer for the brain, it opens it up to possibilities. Languages like Prolog and, Lisp are in that category also. -- Cecil KD5NWA www.qrpradio.com www.hpsdr.com "Sacred Cows make the best Hamburger!" Don Seglio Batuna
