Porting Python to non-pc platforms (AS/400)

[Peter Sommerfeld]

Jay Graves wrote:

>Its about $1200 for my machine.

Big bucks :-(

>IBM is pushing Java very hard to fill in as an applications language
> and have made great strides, but most new development on the
> AS/400 is still done in RPG.
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>I have VERY little experience with C (I can recognize a C program 2 out of 3
>times. (-:  )   In your opinion, how hard is Python to port?  If I shell out
>the bucks for a compiler, what chance to you give a neophyte C programmer of
>getting it to compile and run?

Python itself shouldn't be the problem. But there is is some platform
specific stuff which might be harder. Consider porting JPython, the Java
implementation of Python. Write once, run everywhere (???).

good luck

-- Peter