I should abide by my resolution to stay out of trollish =20
conversations.   But...

On Dec 21, 2010, at 10:27 AM, Peter wrote:

> Arduinos in their native form (with non assembly 'painless' IDE) are =20
> to embedded
> computing what 100 line BASIC "programs" written by middle schoolers =20
> as school
> assignments between dates and wii matches are to computer science.

Arduinos are rather like Basic Stamps and (earlier) BASIC-52 systems.  =20
Both of those were quite successful within their niches.

Except the Arduino is cheaper, faster, runs the host environment on =20
multiple types of systems, is fully open source, has a better =20
transition to "real" products, has a better transition to "real" =20
programming, uses a more currently popular language, is more portable =20
to new platforms, is more easily extensible, and is much more widely =20
available...

BillW

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