[Tfug] Language choices

[Stephen Hooper]

> > did you need something that is already ready for
> > embedding?  if so, into what other language?  c?
> > itself?
>
> I'm not sure I understand the question.  I want to
> be able to write applications (applets?) in this
> language that I can bind to threads in my system
> and cause to execute.  The application need not
> be aware of the environment that invokes it.
>

I think that there is some confusion... I think most people think you
are looking for an embeddable language.  For example, Jython:  Python
running inside a Java program to allow dynamic reworking of that
program.  Good uses (for example), are keeping scripts inside a
relational database to work on the records so that you can create
dynamic rules, and leave it up to the database itself to describe the
rules that your program follows to manipulate the records.

I assumed (maybe from talking to you), that you were looking at
"embedded" programming: the programming of machines that do not have
the full range of functionality inherent in a PC... (machines that may
not have  an MMU, Math Co-processor, Operating System, etc.) and were
looking for an interpreter suited for that environment.  In other
words "bare" metal programming, in this case targetting the ARM
processor.