Chris Kalos wrote: > I can see it now... Doug's jacket, powered by Java -- in more > ways than one! Speaking of Java ... and thinking about James' requirement to do serial communications in assembly ... I'm not envious. When I went to college for programming many moons ago they made us do assembly, IBM 370 assembly on punch cards. This was done to weed out those who couldn't hack it. This assembly course eliminated 2/3 of all of people! Needless to say, things have changed a bit since then. I don't have any desire to do assembly (except on vintage hardware), although I'm not afraid of it, it's just too damn tedious. I now think even C is too tedious! I am doing a whole ton of low level device interfacing to all kinds of devices, but my complete toolkit is Blackdown Java on Linux, Java Communications API, and BASIC on microcontrollers. I have yet to find a need for C or assembly. I hate allocating memory, and I love objects. The combination of Java on Linux plus BASIC on microcontrollers is very powerful and is super easy to program. My code is very clean, mostly self-documenting. Someone else could probably even understand it! And I don't allocate memory, therefore there are no memory leaks. Also, the code is very robust, designed such that if there is problems with a device, the program keeps chugging along and tries again later. I find it quite interesting that James needs to do PIC assembly for securing a degree in physics! I can understand this requirement for the compsci folks, but this seems a bit extreme for other sciences. I also think that most academic programs are a bit antiquated as far as technology goes. I wonder if the people designing these programs have any idea what the real job requirements are. -- Doug -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org please, Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/false domain
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