It's a bit of an contradiction for me that you ask for modularity but don't
want an object based language.
Development of XBasic seems to have stopped about 2002. The community that
could help you will be rather small.
Much of the documentation is not available anymore. I can only assume that
th
I'd suggest taking a look at Free Pascal. It's well supported and can be
compiled and cross-compiled on a number of different platforms including
the BBB. It also enjoys a wide range of libraries and a good and active
support forum. You can get an idea of capabilities by visiting the Lazarus
Hi Curt
thanks very much for your reply, I'll certainly take a look at Pascal
appreciate your taking the time to help
richard
On Monday, March 9, 2015 at 7:48:04 PM UTC-4, Curt Carpenter wrote:
>
> I'd suggest taking a look at Free Pascal. It's well supported and can be
> compiled and cross-co
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 wit
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:
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> Look at Golang.org
>
> I just finished a html5 webserver running on the BBB built in Golang and
> cross
Somehow we came a bit of topic.
Since the thread is already starving I can maybe resurrect it just to
highjack it a bit...
I'm in a similar situation. I want to implement a program on the BBB with
graphics and touch screen. But in the future there should be also a web
interface for remote contr
This is a really interesting thread, I haven't learned so much so quickly
in awhile!
Hi Chilli
I am also in a position where I'm developing a BBB with a touchscreen. I
chose python. I hardly ever used python previous to this project and
usually choose node.js or ruby which I know pretty deeply
I thought that C++ plugins can be used in node.js. This would probably
have been the way if had chosen if I wanted to include ultimate series port
control.
To be honest I never though about Phyton. I know that the networking
capability is good. But the second thing that comes into my mind is e
It's probably time for you to embrace modern technology, and forgo some (
or all ) the restrictions you're placing on yourself. Past that. these
restrictions are not reasonable. A programing language is a tool, and every
took has its intended use,
C for example could possibly work very well for yo
hi William
thanks very much for replying
you are absolutely right that a programming language is a tool, and a
metaphor that resonates with me since I"m also a woodworker. I know
that I can use a jackknife or an axe to shape a board, but a saw and
plane do the job better and with less work,
On Mon, 9 Mar 2015 16:48:04 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
>I'd suggest taking a look at Free Pascal. It's well supported and can be
>compiled and cross-compiled on a number of different platforms including
>the BBB. It also enjoys a wide range of libraries and a good and active
>support forum. Yo
Hi Harvey
thanks for the tip, and thanks for taking the time to help me
regards
richard
On Monday, March 9, 2015 at 8:02:29 PM UTC-4, Harvey White wrote:
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> On Mon, 9 Mar 2015 16:48:04 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
>
> >I'd suggest taking a look at Free Pascal. It's well supported and can be
> >co
Richard, I can not state it any better than wikipedia ( regular expression
).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regular_expression
Basically like wildcards, but much more powerful. Now as to whether or not
just using "regex" represents "strong array handling" . . . again that
depends on your definitio
I might also mention Perl, except that it is not exactly a compilable
language. Compilers do exist, but may not exist for armhf yet.
Perl is very well known for its string manipulation as well as it's very
ugly syntax . . .
On Mon, Mar 9, 2015 at 8:00 PM, William Hermans wrote:
> Richard, I can
On Mon, 9 Mar 2015 17:32:55 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
>Hi Harvey
>
>thanks for the tip, and thanks for taking the time to help me
Sure. However, I'm not sure how well Lazarus supports processors like
the BBB. All I've used it on is the PC, where it's reasonably
compatible with old Delphi code. I
>
> Sadly, the modern software technology ( and i daresay the modern software
> coders' mindset ) is responsible for the shoddy and error-ridden code i see
> almost everywhere.
>
I can only partitally follow you. The problem is not the tool. The problem
is the people using it!! The more sophist
On Tue, 10 Mar 2015 01:45:18 -0700 (PDT), you wrote:
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>>
>> Sadly, the modern software technology ( and i daresay the modern software
>> coders' mindset ) is responsible for the shoddy and error-ridden code i see
>> almost everywhere.
In software, you either look for the errors yourself and pr
Richard:
I am going to talk about a question you didn't ask.
What is the life of a BBB in continuous operation, such as a commercial
process controller?
The BBB is a teaching, learning and experimenting platform. It is powerful
and an amazing value for the cost in this application.
It will l
Hi Graham
you make a very valid point about the expected lifetime of the hardware. I
fully expect some of the BBB's will fail over years, but since the project
is a highly distributed system, no one failure is critical and is within
the error reporting mandate.
you also make a very good point
I was looking for a device with HDMI output, real AD inputs (no abused
touchpad or PMIC inputs), interrupt support, basic graphic support and what
I consider state of the art RAM and flash.
Compared to the general single board computers my requirements narrowed
down the matches amazingly (like
> With a specially tweaked file system, (read only root..) and correctly
> using tmpfs on ram for your application, you can remove most of the
> failures from even the crappiest SD cards. Along with extending the
> life of the system, where power is not 100% stable.
>
> Regards, Robert
Robert:
C
On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Graham Haddock wrote:
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>> With a specially tweaked file system, (read only root..) and correctly
>> using tmpfs on ram for your application, you can remove most of the
>> failures from even the crappiest SD cards. Along with extending the
>> life of the system,
Thanks for the reference.
--- Graham
==
On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 12:00 PM, Robert Nelson
wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 11:56 AM, Graham Haddock
> wrote:
> >
> >> With a specially tweaked file system, (read only root..) and correctly
> >> using tmpfs on ram for your application, you can remov
Robert, those beagleboard XM(s) you talked about a year or more ago that
take pictures etc, and run off an SD card have been going how long ? I only
mention this so everyone else can get an idea of how long a read only
system can last. They also run Debian ?
@ Everyone else
Another way that you c
On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 2:18 PM, William Hermans wrote:
> Robert, those beagleboard XM(s) you talked about a year or more ago that
> take pictures etc, and run off an SD card have been going how long ? I only
> mention this so everyone else can get an idea of how long a read only system
> can last
Hi William
thanks again for responding - I"m very grateful for all the advice you and
the others are offering
thanks for the clarification about regular expression
I keep hearing C over and over, and have to admit that I have an ingrained
dislike for C ( probably irrational , so I should put t
Hi Chili
you are mostly right - the problem is not solely the tool - it is mostly
the people. Sadly, however, many of the 'modern' tools are equally flawed
for exactly the same reason - very few people today do real design - they
just code away until something sort of works.
I'm concerned abou
On Tue, Mar 10, 2015 at 11:06 AM, richard.leverton
wrote:
> Hi Graham
>
> you make a very valid point about the expected lifetime of the hardware. I
> fully expect some of the BBB's will fail over years, but since the project
> is a highly distributed system, no one failure is critical and is wit
Keyvan,
Hey there. I am curious as to why you think serial is broken in Nodejs ? A
serial port *is / can be* a file just like anything else in Linux. Since
Nodejs has file methods provided as stock I would think it would / could be
a no-brainer . . .
That said, obviously I do not know everything,
Hi William
Although node-serialport did not work for me, in retrospect I can't blame
the library. My application required control over the handshaking signals
so I needed something capable of that. At the time, node-serialport did not
have this feature but pyserial did. So I went with pyserial whi
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