Personally I like to see many different projects and programming environments come out of the SDR. These are people's personal projects so, if you don't like the particular language/environment, no one is forcing you to use it. The only "official" software for the SDR-1000 is PowerSDR which is C#/C.
Ideas from these different projects often get reused in others - which is the real value, I think. For example, Rocky for the SoftRock has the automatic I/Q correction and polyphase FFT which inspired the same in PowerSDR. I have been looking for an excuse to play with SmallTalk... 73 de Phil N8VB On 12/29/05, Sami Aintila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Smalltalk? Now, what we need is an SDR project in Lisp. > > Or maybe I should start my own SDR experiment in Haskell? (No, I'm not > going to do it!) > > Gerald started all this in Visual Basic. Then it became C# with some > plain old C for the DSP. There was a Python project going, but > apparently Bob gave that up and moved into Smalltalk/Squeak. The point > I'm trying to make here is that this kind of constant "evolution" can > be a little overwhelming (or downright scary) to someone with not much > programming experience. > > Please guys, don't get me wrong. I think it's simply fascinating how > the SDR-1000 inspires people to come up with all these innovative > concepts, be it hardware or software (or something in between like > FPGA's). And I understand this latest experimental project is not > intended as a replacement for the current C# console. > > But still, I'm fairly certain most people involved in this little SDR > project don't have PhD's in computer science. Neither do I, although I > am (at least superficially) familiar with countless programming > languages. I simply want to warn against constantly changing the > programming tools. For most people, learning Yet Another Programming > Language takes a lot of time. For professional programmers, it may be > a worthy investment. For non-professionals, I'm not so sure. Always > remember this: You can write a bad program in any language. > > Having said all of the above, I must confess the Squeak environment > looks interesting, and I sincerely hope something useful comes out of > this. I remember Smalltalk from the 1980's, but never used it for > anything real. > > "Small talk, a skill at which Finns are notoriously lacking, is > considered suspect by definition, and is not especially valued." > (http://virtual.finland.fi/ - Guide to Finnish customs and manners) > > 73, Sami OH2BFO > > > On 12/28/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > If you feel things are getting a little heavy in the real SDR world the KISS > > principal radio is starting to do things. It must be; because I stopped > > writing code and started to tune around, a sure sign that something is > > working. Take a peek at http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/g3ukb/ . > > I promise you there is just one picture and not very many words. > > > > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio mailing list > FlexRadio@flex-radio.biz > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz >
