Is this a true statement?

[Emile van Sebille]

I hadn't considered the possibility of a "deeply embedded" python solution,
but it certainly has possibilities.

Anyone got a virally infected copy of windows os source code to play around
with?  <bg>

Hoping-the-evil-empire-police-have-a-sense-of-humor-ly y'rs,

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Emile van Sebille
emile at fenx.com

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"Grant Edwards" <grante at visi.com> wrote in message
news:slrn9jd1ki.mo.grante at tuxtop.visi.com...
> On Sun, 24 Jun 2001 13:29:24 -0400, D-Man <dsh8290 at rit.edu> wrote:
>
> >When I read the original question I got the impression that
> >"write a device driver in Python" meant "A person sits down at
> >a console with a text editor, writes some Python code that
> >implements the device's spec in terms of the driver API
> >specified by the kernel".
>
> That's what the author meant, and what everybody understood
> (with the possible exception of David Ullrich).
>
> One could use a "deeply embedded" Python bytecode interpreter
> running inside the kernel to allow the user to write a driver
> in Python.  It would take a fair amount of work, but I don't
> think it would be particularly difficult -- at least under
> Linux.  People have already a lot of the requied work in order
> to run a Python interpreter on embedded systems.
>
> Sounds like a good MS project to me...
>
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