Congratulations to Nordic on Micro:bit

[JohnBrown]

Not really a question, but congratulations to Nordic on getting their chip onto the Micro:bit(is it the nRF51 or the new nRF52?). Looks like a cool device. I'll be hanging around outside the local school in the hope of mugging some kids soon... Wonder how much it'll be to buy.

[Mahendra Tailor]

We at Laird offer smartBASIC on our nrf51 based modules.

I would love to be able to talk someone at BBC to offer a firmware image for the Micro Bit which would allow writing apps in BASIC.

A real programming environment akin to the BBC Micro.

Our smartBASIC is event driven and no line numbers. Syntax very similar to Visual BASIC.