RE: [Embedlets-dev] Quiet time is over

[Christopher S. <cs...@oo...>]

Ted,

The idea is repugnant! A step back from the Renaissance to the dark ages!
You are painting over a Picasso with Elvis felt art! Condemning your
students to a life long struggle with a language impediment.

At least you could have done it in JavaScript, a (small) step in the right
direction.

Chris :)


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> Dear Ted - It will be interesting to see how you work this out in BNF for
> jbasic.jj:
>
> GotoStatement ::= <GOTO> ( Name | <INTEGER_LITERAL> )
>
> Thats funny (considering it Java)!
>
> Best regards, Kelly Smith
>
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> Kosan
> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2003 2:13 PM
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> Subject: [Embedlets-dev] Quiet time is over
>
>
> Topic tags:[ARCH][JAPL][WIRING][DOCS][MGMT][STRATEGY][NEWBIE]
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>
> Things have been quiet in the Embedlets project for a number of months but
> this
> is because a number of us have been working extremely hard during
> this time
> turning some of the ideas that have been discussed on this list into code
> and
> products.
>
> Bruce has gotten TStik out the door, Chris has been integrating a
> persistence
> mechanism into the Embedlets code base, James has been having some great
> discussions with MicroChip about uVM (along with moving Heaven
> and Earth to
> get
> the uVM 1.0.7 release finished) and I have been working on the following:
>
>
> 1) More than half of the free online Embedded Java Beginner's course
> materials
> have been completed and the complete course including a uVM track
> should be
> done by sometime in December.  Here is a link to what is up right now:
>
> http://tkosan.javadevices.org/ssu/classes/etec201/index.html
>
> The site is branded as an 'Intro to OOP 1' course right now because I am
> beta
> testing the materials in a University course that I am teaching
> but it will
> be
> re-branded as soon as the beta test period is completed.
>
>
>
> 2) The Global Light Blinker project continues to move forward
> (http://globallightblinker.jxta.org/), the first generation
> controller boxes
> are currently being assembled, the second generation controller boxes are
> scheduled to be powered by uVMs and the third generation controller boxes
> are
> scheduled to be controlled by TStiks.
>
>
>
> 3) The uVM powered CNC plasma machine that I talked about this summer is
> coming
> along slow but sure and I plan on using a TStik and the new
> uVM-452 devices
> for
> it (http://tkosan.javadevices.org/misc/embeddedjava/plasma_frame.jpg).
>
>
>
> 4) And here is an announcement that I have been keeping quiet about until
> now.
> Since about mid summer I have been working very hard to bring a version of
> BASIC to the world of Embedded Java (called JBasic) and as of now the
> environment is mostly functional and is going through alpha
> testing (JavaCC
> and
> JJTree rock!).
>
> The goal of JBasic is to provide an easy way for beginners get up and
> running
> on any Embedded Java device (like TINI, TSTIK, JStamp, JStik, etc. and
> hopefully uVM) *without needing to use tools like TiniConverter, Charade,
> JemBuilder or uvmp*.
>
> It is also designed to be a scripting language for Embedlets and
> it provides
> a
> viable solution to the 'Embedlet configuration by non-Java
> programmers' goal
> that I am still shooting for with the Graphical Wiring tool.  The
> nice thing
> about JBasic is that it works now and will be ready to beta test
> sometime in
> December.
>
>
> Here is a screen shot of the JBasicBulder IDE:
>
> http://tkosan.javadevices.org/misc/embeddedjava/JBasicBuilder.jpg
>
>
> and here is JBasic's BNF specification (which uses Paul Cager's
> VB BNF spec
> as
> a starting point):
>
> http://tkosan.javadevices.org/misc/embeddedjava/jbasicbnf.html
>
>
> JBasic was tested on a TStik last week and it ran well.  Testing on
> JStamp/JStik should occur within a few weeks and as soon as I
> receive a 452
> based uVM device I am going to try to shoe-horn the interpreter into one.
>
>
>
>
> Anyway, Chris and I have been discussing the integration of the Embedlet
> Configuration and Persistance mechanisms a bit off list and
> within a day or
> two
> I will copy this information to the list so that everyone can
> participate in
> the discussion.
>
>
> It was a quiet summer but it looks like things are going to begin
> heating up
> again very soon.
>
> I predict that the Winter of 2003-2004 will finally see the arrival of the
> Embedded Java inflection point that we have all been working so hard to
> achieve.
>
>
> Ted
>
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