Pythom in embedded system?

[Tom Culliton]

In article <37ccfed3.3577714 at news.omnilink.de>,
Stefan Franke <spamfranke at bigfoot.de> wrote:
>On 1 Sep 1999 07:09:28 GMT, vnesek at maja.zesoi.fer.hr (Vjekoslav NESEK) wrote:
>
>>Anyway if not python, can you point me to some other free 
>>interpeter suitable for embedding in such a limited system?

Forth is a common choice in embedded environments which require a
small footprint and good speed, but while the concepts are elegant the
reality is icky IMO.  TCL also has a very small footprint but is much
slower and thinks everything is string.  You may also want to look at
slang which has a forth like core and a more procedural syntax above
that, any of several tiny lisp/scheme interepters if you can handle
the parenthesis, an LPC derivative called Pike which looks promising
but doesn't say much about embedding, ...

>Have a look at Lua:
>  http://www.tecgraf.puc-rio.br/lua/
>
>Stefan

Lua seems to be small enough and designed to be embedded...