Re: Programming for Electronics Engineers

From: Frithiof Andreas Jensen (frithiof.jensen_at_die_spammer_die.ericsson.com)
Date: 01/18/05 

Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2005 15:26:55 +0100

"John Larkin" <jjSNIPlarkin@highTHISlandPLEASEtechnology.XXX> wrote in
message news:j3alu0l6q9refbdvanl3kv4cgufirlgd1l@4ax.com...

> You have to realize that guys like Jim and I are fulltime circuit
> designers.
........
> grapher program. Some of the stuff I do is very compute intensive, so
> a pig like Visual Basic would be unusable. So what we need is a
> simple, quick, easy to learn and easy to use language that runs fast.
> And, at least for me, can do hardware i/o without requiring me to
> write device drivers.

Python with the 'Numeric' and 'Scientific Python' (numpy & scipy) packages
should do you then!

Python have all the OO constructs, classes and whatnot too - AND you do not
have to use any of it either, if you do not want too!

I *like* Python ;-)