On 2012-07-30, Stefan Behnel <stefan...@behnel.de> wrote: > Still, you may still get away with the above statement by providing a > sufficiently narrow definition of "standalone". By my definition, there > isn't much "standalone" code out there. Most code I know interfaces with a > couple of external tools, libraries or backends, usually written in > languages I don't have to care about because they provide a language > independent interface.
It's not really relevent to this discussion, but there is _lots_ of stand-alone code out there. It runs in sub-one-dollar microcontrollers that are programmed in assembly language or in C without external libraries (sometimes not even the "libc" that's included in the C language definition). Those microcontrollers are everywhere in toys, appliances, and all sorts of other "non-computer" things. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Mr and Mrs PED, can I at borrow 26.7% of the RAYON gmail.com TEXTILE production of the INDONESIAN archipelago? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list