[Coco] Re: Other languages for OS-9

[Alex Evans]

On Sep 13, 2006, at 11:13 AM, Joel Ewy wrote:


> 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 a copy of perl 5.8.0 running on m68k.  I also have a  
reasonably recent Python and ruby binary for m68k.  If you have a  
recent enough version of gcc up and running getting these  
interpreters up and running isn't too difficult.