[SWLUG] Serial terminal echoing(and things)

[Dave Cridland]

On Mon Aug 15 16:46:26 2005, Steve Anderson wrote:
> plus shipping on eBay. I need to decide how best to drive it though 
> - one of the SF projects is a C library, which means I'd have to 
> dust off my exceedingly dusty C knowledge, and the other is a 
> program that can display bitmaps on it, so I could prepare the time 
> in sections, glue it together in any other language and squirt it 
> down the parallel port. Not so elegant but nobody will see it =)
> 
> By the way, I'm also open to suggestions on programming languages. 
> I'd originally fancied C# in Mono, because it's a skill I could use 
> at work as well, or failing that Python. Both languages I fancy 
> learning, and this *is* a learning experience.

Python is very useful, very clean, and its ctypes module is an 
exceptionally groovy way of interfacing with C libraries without 
having to do any weird extension code. I don't know much about C#, so 
I can't really compare.

I learnt Python because it looked vaguely interesting, and I'm very 
glad I did.

Dave.