Well, that depends on what you're doing. Perl is an interpreted language (albeit one that is compiled before execution, for speed of execution), so if you're thinking of running Perl on some funny platform such as a Lego robot, you first need to get a Perl interpreter/compiler on it. That would make an interesting project :).

If, on the other hand, you are progamming your robot by writing programs for a specific robot-controlling API on a PC somewhere that is connected to hardware that translates the API calls to commands to the robot, you might be able to write a Perl wrapper around this API, enabling you to control the beast in Perl. Of course, you would then be obliged to build a life-sized camel in Lego and drive it using Perl :).

CU
Robartes-

In reply to Re: Hardware Programming and Perl by robartes
in thread Hardware Programming and Perl by Willman023

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