[Coco] Re: Other languages for OS-9

[Gene Heskett]

On Wednesday 13 September 2006 17:13, Joel Ewy wrote:

>Dean Leiber wrote:

>> On Sep 13, 2006, at 8:32 AM, Andrew wrote:

>>> Has anybody ported either of these over to OS-9? Python sounds

>>> perfect, provided the libraries and such it uses aren't overly huge...

>>

>> For some reason, I seem to think that Python may have been ported to

>> OSK a very long time ago (obviously it would be a very old version of

>> Python.) Or is my memory playing tricks on me again?

>>

>> Dean

>>

>>

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>Not sure about Python, but somebody from the EFFO emailed me a binary of

>Perl for 68K probably 10 years ago.  It's a rather old version of Perl

>obviously, and I never got the source.  I think the chances of getting

>anything like Perl or Python running usefully on the CoCo are fairly

>slim.  I've been doing a lot with Damn Small Linux recently, which uses

>Lua for most of its scripting needs.  It's much lighter and supposedly

>faster than Perl or Python, and does run nicely on machines as slow as a

>Pentium-133.  Of course that in itself says nothing about its

>suitability to the CoCo.

>

I have lua here, its used by one of the gfx proggies IIRC.  But I've not 
actually looked at any of its scripts, maybe I should?


>JCE


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