[ros-users] Why ROS recommend Python?

[Tim Sweet]

Hello Ruben,

I'm going to reply to you in a private email and try to help clarify these
questions so that we don't bug the rest of ros-users too much.

-Tim Sweet


On Thu, Feb 20, 2014 at 3:05 PM, Ruben Alves do Nascimento <
rubenanapu at hotmail.com> wrote:

> 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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> > Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 10:45:43 +0100
> > From: Andr? Dietrich <dietrich at ivs.cs.uni-magdeburg.de>
> > To: ros-users at code.ros.org
> > Subject: [ros-users] Announcing rosR and rosR_demos for groovy and
> > hydro
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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
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> > From: Charles DuHadway <duhadway at google.com>
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> > Subject: [ros-users] Internships at Google
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> > Hello ROS users,
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> > We are currently looking for extremely talented and motivated students
> with
> > strong software skills and a background in robotics and/or computer
> vision
> > to work on an exciting new project at Google.
> >
> > If you're interested in an internship please send your resume to
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> > Thank you,
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