Hey Mouser!
Long time no talk to! I thought I got lost or something because I tried to login two or three times and was "blocked." I almost didn't try tonight. I'm glad I did. :)
I think no matter what it will be an interesting and challenging project. -mouser
Thanks for the input. One of the best things about this project is I can focus on my strengths of over 2000 hours of simulated flying in all kinds of aircraft and several hours in a number of real aircraft large and small.
As for the best programming language -- one of the other nice things about doing text-based coding is that you can use almost any programming language.. speed won't be an issue and neither will library support, etc.
I was hoping someone would say this.
So I would fall back on my default language suggestion these days to use Python
Thanks. Python never crossed my mind, although I played with it some years ago.
But mainly I would suggest you do most of your coding virtually in the form of planning before you ever start coding.
When I was coding COBOL, DB2, and (my favorite) CICS back in the '90s it was normal to spend weeks/months in planning and prototype before committing hours to coding. Today, a programmer can get instant results and debug. Back then we condsidered getting our printouts (there were no screen views) in under four hours as something short of a miracle. But, that was a good thing as we really thought through the whole process and not just take a guess and see how it worked out. LOL