On Wed, May 2, 2012 at 10:03 AM, Weddington, Eric <eric.wedding...@atmel.com> 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 _______________________________________________ AVR-GCC-list mailing list AVR-GCC-list@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avr-gcc-list