From: gabriele renzi <surrender_it@...1.vip.ukl.yahoo.com>
Date: 2003-09-17T17:54:21+09:00
Subject: Re: performance and style advice requested


>> I know of no tasks where "a scripting language" is NOT appropriate,
>> except operating systems (kernels and drivers), and _accelerators_ for
>> "scripting languages"
>
>Unfortunately, I do, in particular embedded systems where code size and 
>memory size is at a premium.  With the stuff I'm working on, we're using 
>scripting languages where we can, to test, prototype, etc. but in the 
>end we won't have any embedded scripting language on the current product.

on a sidenote: I remember on of the first embedded linux distribution
(possibly ETLinux) that was base on Tcl. The author of it highlighted
that having  a quite fast interpreter with low memory footprint was
acceptable, noted that you could save much more space for the other
programs, cause an interpreted language script  is far more 'dense' 
that compiled C or whatever.
(btw, if Ruby 1.8 was used you'll get the standard unix tools for free
, as in cd,cat,sort,grep...)

what do you think of it ?