[ros-users] Why ROS recommend Python?

[Ruben Alves do Nascimento]

Hi all
I have a question

I'm trying write something about ROS, but a have at least two questions to answer.

I know that we can code ROS Packages using Python or C++, but, why these two languages were the selected languages?

For example: C++ probably is used because is fast, Python probably because is easy, less code etc.

But there is another reason to answer these questions?

The main questions are: 
Why use Python and C to code ROS Packages?
How it works the ROS interface with Python and C++?

I'm sorry my not so good English, 

Thank you in advance



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> Subject: [ros-users] Announcing rosR and rosR_demos for groovy and
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>       rosR.pdf
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> The aim of this contribution is to connect two previously separated 
> worlds: robotic application
> development with the Robot Operating System (ROS) and statistical 
> programming with R. This
> fruitful combination becomes apparent especially in the analysis and 
> visualization of sensory data. We
> therefore introduce a new language extension for ROS that allows to 
> implement nodes in pure R. All
> relevant aspects are described in a step-by-step development of a common 
> sensor data transformation
> node. This includes the reception of raw sensory data via the ROS 
> network, message interpretation,
> bag-file analysis, transformation and visualization, as well as the 
> transmission of newly generated
> messages back into the ROS network.
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> See also: 
> http://journal.r-project.org/archive/2013-2/dietrich-zug-kaiser.pdf
> rosR: http://wiki.ros.org/rosR
> rosR_demos: http://wiki.ros.org/rosR_demos
> or: http://eos.cs.ovgu.de/dietrich/
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> Hello ROS users,
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> We are currently looking for extremely talented and motivated students with
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