Small Python?

[Jean-Claude Wippler]

Eugene Leitl <eugene.leitl at lrz.uni-muenchen.de> wrote:

> Konrad Hinsen writes:
>  
>  > The language with the best feature/size ratio is probably Forth, but
>  > it's not particularly close to Python!
> 
> It should be very possible to write a very compact Python in Forth,
> though. At least the data structures and operators would come handy.

Funny you say that, I've started working on something like this.  It's a 
type-safe vector-oriented Forth-like engine, set up as a state machine.  
There's some code at http://www.equi4.com/thrive/ (a few simple Python 
prototypes, and a first attempt in C++).

-jcw