I suggested Jave instead of Python, Tcl/Tk, or whatever other languages are
out there for several reasons:

1: 'C++' like syntax. I assume GPSIM is currently written in 'C' or 'C++'
and this would make the port easier.

2: Wide support. JVMs are found almost everywhere.

3: Decent performance. With JIT compilationa and all the other tricks used
by a good JVM you can get pretty good results. I could be wrong, but I don't
think the other suggested languages will be nearly as fast. Finally, with
computers just getting faster, the performance hit of using Java instead of
C/C++ will not be as painful.

Bob Ammerman
RAm Systems


----- Original Message -----
From: "Alan B. Pearce" <A.B.Pearce@RL.AC.UK>
To: <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU>
Sent: Friday, August 30, 2002 4:11 AM
Subject: Re: [PIC]: [PBK] The PICLIST Development Project


> >I understand what Wouter was asking, however the request (to which he
> >happened to respond) was for "translating gpsim to Java".
>
> >But whatever the request may be, there are dozens of ways one can
> >interface with gpsim. First there is the gui. I presume that the request
>
> This line of discussion came about from endeavouring to make the PICList
> Beginners Kit multi-platform, including Mac's and OS/2 (which one of our
> newer members happens to prefer).
>
> My original suggestion had been to write the PC host front end in Delphi
to
> run under windows, which would allow porting to Kylix to run under *nix.
The
> other platforms then came out of the woodwork, as being nice to support.
>
> The suggestion was that Java may be the ideal method to make whatever
> assembler we use multi-platform, and gpsim is the major non-microchip
viable
> code that I am aware of at this stage, hence the suggestion to transfer it
> to Java.
>
> It may well be that someone else will need to do the conversion to Jave
(or
> Tk/Tcl, Python etc) from whatever package is perceived to be the ideal one
> to convert.
>
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