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Re: [avr-gcc-list] using exceptions
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Gabriel Dos Reis |
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Re: [avr-gcc-list] using exceptions |
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Wed, 2 May 2012 11:11:15 -0500 |
On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Weddington, Eric
<address@hidden> wrote:
> We're talking about university students and research projects. It does NOT
> have to be efficient. They're working on something new. It's the nature of
> research projects to try and find out what are the issues. Maybe they'll
> discover what needs to be done to make it efficient. Who knows? The important
> thing is letting this discovery process happen.
>
> As engineers, working in industry, we are keenly aware of working with
> multiple constraints and an economic end goal. We know that there are
> multiple ways of doing things, but few correct ways of doing things, given
> the nature of our problems and our goals. University research projects are
> not beholden to that. But in that process, they may discover something new
> that will help later. At the very least, it will be a learning experience for
> them. :-)
>
> But you bring up interesting points:
>
> - Could C++ on AVR be improved to a point such that function programming
> libraries will work well in such an environment?
>
> - Could Lua be made to work on an AVR?
>
> - Could OCAML be made to work on an AVR?
>
> All of these could be interesting projects. Part of the interest is in making
> it work on such a constrained environment like an 8-bit AVR processor.
>
> Don't forget that someone recently got Linux running on AVR (via an ARM
> emulator on the AVR). That's pretty darn cool! Is it practical? Hell, no! But
> why else do we climb mountains? Because it's there!
>
> Eric Weddington
Thank you. I couldn't have expressed this better.
-- Gaby
Re: [avr-gcc-list] using exceptions, David Brown, 2012/05/02
Re: [avr-gcc-list] using exceptions, Bob Paddock, 2012/05/02
Re: [avr-gcc-list] using exceptions,
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Re: [avr-gcc-list] using exceptions, David Brown, 2012/05/02
Re: [avr-gcc-list] using exceptions, Don Kinzer, 2012/05/01