You gotta be joking? Right? Surely?

Brew is still a research platform (according to what I was told three weeeks ago by the folk at Ohio State when I was there for another purpose.

J2ME may be great for cell phones but where is the mainstream support? Or even the mainstream product? Oh, it's Java! Java small? Please pull the other leg!!!

Memory in any form is now cheap. Routinely I use 386ex or similar embedded modules with 512MB of Flash storage and 512MB of RAM. Not a single spinning spindle in site and usually we run Linux with Apache/Perl/MySQL on them! I currently have a robot here in my workshop. It has a 386ex, 512MB/512MB with USB, I can plug lots of USB HDD or Flash if I need it. It has 802.11b WiFi so it can join the network and it has about 18 slave processors (Arm 7's and Atmel Atmega128's) controlling motors, attitude stabilisation, sensors, GPS, small space laser collision avoidance and ultrasonic collision avoidance. All the slaves are written in 'C', the main controller dispatcher is all in Perl! It is quite fast enough and we can change things very quickly adn easily - in fact during operation! We log on to the controller over the WiFi, make code changes and re-boot the controller code with barely a noticeable heart-beat. Now, please tell me I can do that in Java?

jdtoronto

In reply to Re: perl and the age/art of convergence by jdtoronto
in thread perl and the age/art of convergence by drfrog

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