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The dark side of the IoT meets ESC
by Max Maxfield - Embedded.com, Oct. 05, 2015 –
My chum David Ewing -- the Chief Technology Officer at Synapse Wireless -- was just visiting with me here in my office.
David is a pretty exuberant fellow at the best of times, but he's particularly excited about the forthcoming Embedded Systems Conference (ESC), which will take place 4-5 November 2015 in Minneapolis, MN.
The reason for David's anticipation and enthusiasm is that he's going to be presenting a session at ESC Minneapolis on the use of higher-level programming paradigms as embodied by languages like Python and Javascript to create the "Things" in the Internet of Things (IoT).
We were noodling about what to call David's presentation when he saw Darth Tater (the Darth Vader incarnation of Mr. Potato Head) sitting on my BADASS Display. This caused David to start ruminating about the way in which many assembly-level programmers in the days of yore fought "tooth-and-nail" against moving to the higher level of abstraction offered by C, and how many of today's C programmers view languages like Python and Javascript as being on the "Dark Side."
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