[ELECTRON] Beginners Programming

[Blair Thompson]

Yep...  Got me, I was sloppy with my language. A million apologies, I have let everyone down. 

I don't know the difference between the languages sufficiently to know which is best. Probably best to go with C then if anything. But don't choose on my requests. If PHP is more useful to people then go with that 

Blair 

Martin McGrath <mcgrath.martin at gmail.com> wrote:

>On 18 April 2013 23:36, Blair Thompson <mail at justblair.co.uk> wrote:
>
>> Depends on your choice of microprocessor. Arduino is where my
>experience
>> lies and it's c++ based as well as being about the most popular
>platform
>> for beginners.
>>
>> Anything I have seen for the msp430 has been in c++ as well. Though I
>know
>> you can develop in c with it.
>>
>> But I am no expert in these matters. The only pic stuff I ever did
>was in
>> a language called Jal that never really took off.
>>
>
>Ah Microprocessor vs Microcontroller.
>
>IIRC the Arduino core libs are written in C and C++, most of the
>application code I've seen is written in C.
>
>Plain old C has many advantages, less bloat, less runtime overheads etc
>which I'd have thought would have made it more appealing that C++ for
>the
>Arduino, given the fairly limited resources.
>
>Cheers
>
>Martin
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