:) No, there's no sales pitch... The Raspberry Pi is a legit project, nonprofit and meant for educational purposes.
But that doesn't mean we can't buy and sell them for commercial purposes. That helps them too. They need volume to keep cost down, and they need community involvement to add value to the project, for which the goal is to get kids involved in programming again, like they were in the early days of computing. Right now, Python is the "Official" supported language. That's what they will use for their educational projects they'll develop. Perl was certainly considered, but they decided to stick with Python only, as far as I know. Not sure why. I suspect it's because the community hasn't reached out to them to offer their support, and they've had their hands full with what's on their plate. If my motives are selfish at all, (and I admit there is a bit of that) it's because I know I'll need some help with some of the things I'd like to do with a RPi, but I'm not selling anything here and have no official connection with the project. ;) And what I said about these tiny, inexpensive computers that run linux and come with perl is true also. There's a link on the forums over there to one that's smaller and faster than the RPi that's shipping now for about $100. I think it's running Android on top of linux. Others are sure to come. I'm pretty excited about what I can do with these little devices. There are lot's of potential gizmos to plug into them, cameras, GPS, compass, all kinds of stuff, and we should be able to control them with perl. I know we can do that now, but the RPi really lowers the bar for entry... Kindest Regards, Bill Stephenson On Jun 2, 2012, at 12:10 PM, Omega -1911 wrote: > Sales pitch? :) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
