Re: [PhillyOnRails] "Ruby for microcontrollers" a short list...

[GREG NEELEY <greg_w_neely@yahoo.com>]

David,

I wasn't thinking about introspection and reflection,
so could you expound?

My mindset at the time was strictly the notion of
data objects for various controller models, to
encourage encapsulation, inheritance, and perhaps
some overloading: more like "C++" features than
introspection and reflection.

--- David Bogus <davidbogus@gmail.com> wrote:

> One of the advantage I'd see with using the ruby dsl
> is testability.
> Others may feel that testing in C is fine but I find
> that its requires
> a significant amount of more boiler plate then in
> languages with
> introspection or reflection.  This boiler plate
> makes me feel like I
> can't do my normal development cycle.
> 
> 
> 
> Dave
> 
> On 9/4/07, Mark Chadwick <mark.chadwick@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Another interesting project:
> >
> > http://rad.rubyforge.org/
> >
> > You might want to poke around that code, as it's
> taking a small Ruby DSL,
> > and translating it to C/C++ for the controller.
> >
> > That said, I'm not sure of the real value of
> shoehorning Ruby on a
> > microcontroller.  C isn't exactly the plague.  If
> there was ever a "time and
> > place" for C code, it seems like it couldn't be
> too far from this.
> > (Should I duck?)
> >
> > Anyone else screwing around with Arduino boards?
> >
> >
> > On 9/4/07, GREG NEELEY <greg_w_neely@yahoo.com >
> wrote:
> > > September 3, 2007
> > >
> > > About all I could find with this fellow:
> > >
> > >
> >
>
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby-talk/65582
> > >
> > > He worked in '03 with various microcontrollers
> in an
> > > industry
> > > setting, and used Ruby, as he describes in "high
> > > level"
> > > at URL above.  He's outlined three
> straightforward
> > > methodologies.
> > >
> > > His last was precisely what I had in mind,
> (C-TRAN
> > > paradigm, only using Ruby to generate the C) so
> > > there's "nothing
> > > new under the sun" (Ecclesiastes) :-)
> > > -GreginKC
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