Sami wrote:
> Smalltalk? Now, what we need is an SDR project in Lisp.
I fully appreciate your viewpoint but there is method in my madness. When it comes down to it, from a programming point of view all languages are much more similar than they are different. However, from a functional point of view there are certain things you can only do in dynamic late-bound languages.
I did try every dynamic language including Lisp and Ruby after admitting to myself that the wxPython GUI was never going to be what I wanted and the cross platform compatibility (or lack of) was a real pain. But the thing that really swung it to Squeak wasn't actually Smalltalk but the Morphic system for building interfaces which is pretty much spot-on for what I wanted to build. Yes, you could do this in other languages but it wouldn't be as good and would probably take an order of magnitude more time.
I think the solid engineering principals and mainstream language applied to the official console is absolutely right and for the vast majority this is the road to follow, the rest should just be peripheral noise which can be tuned out. For those that want to play in their own space there is more opportunity with this radio than any other on the planet. In my book you can't have too many projects going on, be they hardware, software or a mix like the FPGA project, which I think is great if only I had more time I would jump in on it.
73
Bob
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