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gcheong
on March 5, 2009
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Live tour of Anybots through a robot's eyes, today...
I was surprised to learn the programming was a combo of C++ and Python. For some reason I had the image that Trevor Blackwell was a hardcore LISP guy.
pg
on March 5, 2009
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You're probably thinking of someone else.
gcheong
on March 5, 2009
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More like guilt by association.
ivankirigin
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IIRC, his reason for Python is the ease and available libraries. C++ is only ever a good choice if it must be real time.
herdrick
on March 5, 2009
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If even then. You can get a good enough version of real time with Python and other GC languages.
ivankirigin
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Typically that's only because someone else did the work, e.g. OpenCV makes image processing real-time in Python because it is C++ under the hood.
lsb
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Smalltalk, no?
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