Thanks, Pieter I've never heard of Go and had not idea it was running on the BBB. I'll check it out.
regards richard On Tuesday, March 10, 2015 at 9:21:11 AM UTC-4, Pieter Theron wrote: > > Look at Golang.org > > I just finished a html5 webserver running on the BBB built in Golang and > cross compiled from Ubuntu for ARM. > > The performance gains with Golang's concurrency model is huge and it's > rather new with many functional improvements over C/C++. > > It's easy to pick-up and get going with,but don't take my word for it, > check it out at http://www.golang.org > > Pieter > > > On Monday, March 9, 2015 at 6:39:26 PM UTC+2, richard.leverton wrote: >> >> >> Hello All >> >> I'm starting to design a commercial project which will use a number of >> networked BBB's as process controllers. While I"m an experienced DP guy, >> I"m an absolute newbie with the BBB hardware and software. >> >> I'm at the point of choosing a language in which the applications will be >> written. The main application will be a no-user, stand-alone, repetitive >> data-processing application, so I want a language with the following >> characteristics : >> >> 1. high level >> 2. procedural >> 3. modular - high cohesion and low coupling >> 4. non-object oriented >> 5. strong array processing >> 6. runs under Linux >> 7. compilable >> >> My research tells me that Python is the most-used high-level language >> within the BBB community, but it fails ( at least somewhat ) on several of >> the above requirements. >> >> My research tells me that XBasic ( which satisfies all of the above ) >> doesn't seem to be much used within the BBB community. >> >> My Questions, therefore are : >> >> A - XBasic is said to run under Linux - does anyone know of a reason why >> it would not work on the BBB ? >> >> B - am I missing something profoundly wrong with XBasic which precludes >> its use ? >> >> >> thanks very much for taking your time to help me out >> >> >> richard >> >> >> >> >> -- For more options, visit http://beagleboard.org/discuss --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "BeagleBoard" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to beagleboard+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
