RE: GTE DUATS and weather graphics/etc.

["Neulinger, Nathan R." <nneul@umr.edu>]

> > 
> > I would suggest that any standardized library to interface 
> with duats
> > should be written in C - the reason for this is that then 
> it can be used
> > from ANY of the languages (perl,tcl,python,c,c++), simply 
> by writing a
> > small wrapper library by hand or using SWIG.
> 
> Um..
> 
> I vote that we use Java for this purpose if we are looking for cross
> platform support...  It's a bit slower than some of the scripting
> languages but it's well supported across a large cross section of
> hardware platforms and OS's.

I would venture to say that perl and C have a far greater cross platform
capability than java at the moment. Now, for the graphical interface, you
may be right on there.

> If not, then Perl is my second choice.  You can use Perl routines from
> within other programs and Perl is fairly fast.

I would say perl would be the best place to start. We could then easily
translate the perl module into a wrapper around a C library - particularly
if we are careful on designing the interface.

> My third choice would be C or C++ for the reasons given by Nathan.
> 
> 
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