programming language

[CarlBB]

Hi All,

I am hoping someone can recommend a programming language based on:-

Requirements: I want to write a program that I can interface to PSX and have my program do several actions at once i.e. entering and leaving runway.

Background: I am not a programmer by day, but I have successfully achived this for some aircraft that I fly in x-plane. For that solution, I used lua (runs on flywithlua).

Triggers: I will probably keep to what I have done in x-plane - entering runway is triggered by moving no smoking sign switch from on to auto (fail safe has to be there for 5 seconds)

Leaving runway: speedbrake lever moved from up to down (with a few other checks such as slow groundspeed).

Thanks for any advise

Carl

[Jeroen Hoppenbrouwers]

Requirements: I want to write a program that I can interface to PSX and have my program do several actions at once i.e. entering and leaving runway.

All programming languages can do this.

If you come from a lua background, I recommend not trying to deep-dive too much. This rules out C, C++, C#, and Java. I believe these won't bring you the satisfaction you look for in a reasonable time frame -- but they will keep you going forever if you want to become a pro at developing.

To get a quick feel whether it works for you, look here:
http://www.hoppie.nl/psxpython/

Then again, don't let me push you away from compiled system-level programming languages. It's just that lua is closer to Python than to one of these big ones.


Hoppie