On Wed, 14 Apr 1999, Erez Doron wrote:
>HI
>
>I have to write a user friendly application which controls
>a device via the serial port.
>
>I have to supply this app to our customers, so My primary target
>is MS-Windows :-( but I prefer if it was cross platform
>(i.e. runs on linux and other OSs)
>
>which programming language is easier ?
>which do I choose ?
>(Visual Basic ? Visual C++ ? Visual J++ ? JDK ? Delphi ? DJGPP ? other
>?)
>
>I Know C, C++ very good
>I used to program with pascal so I can do it too
>I have some knopledge of java programming (did simple apps)
>I used to program basic on my Sinclair spectrum
My best choice: Tck/Tk front end (portable across platforms), and C back
end (if required), one for each platform, linked as Tcl/Tk extension. If
you want to sell for L95 you can compile Tcl/Tk into native code using a
commercial compiler.
hope this helps,
Peter
