why?

[Grant Edwards]

In article <00b801bf52ac$7f909ea0$f29b12c2 at secret.pythonware.com>, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
>Grant Edwards wrote:
>>  2) [Python] isn't suitable for use in embedded systems with limited
>>     memory.
>
>really?
>
>http://www.abo.fi/~iporres/python/
>
>discusses how to run Python on a
>machine with 256k RAM.

I should have been more specific than "limited".  I was
thinking of the more typical embedded system with an 8 bit
processor and something like 64K of ROM and 8-16K of RAM.

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