On Mon, Jan 20, 2014 at 09:36:43PM -0500, veegee wrote:
> d) The next best thing is Python. I'm not sure if it comes with
> built in support for very low level I/O. If not, it is trivial to
> write C functions callable from Python that do what you need. [...]

I've found Python adequate for serial port stuff, for which I use an
API, pySerial.

http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/pyserial_api.html

I agree with other posts; if you are happy with C and you have code
to maintain, stick with it, just change compiler.

I can't have an opinion on Windows, as I've never owned a copy nor
used it seriously.  People say it works adequately, and I'm content to
relay that.  I did code C for it once, and found it harder to fix
problems in APIs, because the source wasn't available without paying a
large fee.

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