"Stef Mientki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use Python as a replacement for MatLab, > and intend to use it as replacement for Delphi, AutoIt, PHP, VB. > And I'ld love to use it as a replacement for micro controller programming.
If you have a little sub - 64k micro this is not really practical. What we have done is to define a limited virtual machine with a simple "assembler" language and used Python to write the "compiler" for it. Then you have to write the interpreter for the virtual machine in the native micro's code - Either using C or assembler, and you are away from the hardware, into a useful layer of abstraction. ... well sort of - in such a small thing, you are never really far from the hardware, as that is what its supposed to be controlling - but what it definitely buys you is that your apps written in your special language become portable between disparate processors like say an ARM at the upper end and an 8031/8051 at the lower... Such "interpreters" are surprisingly little code, and they work well - faster than what one would expect. - often outperforming C code that does pass by value... - Hendrik -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
