Python OS

[Paul Watson]

"Michael Chermside" <mcherm at mcherm.com> wrote in message
news:mailman.702.1082138150.20120.python-list at python.org...
> A Evans writes:
> > I am by no means a programmer at this stage.
> > But as I learn more and more I see Python as the
> > Holy Grail of programming languages
>
> Then you have much to learn. Different languages have different
> strengths, and a skilled programmer will realize that. Python
> is an excellent language for expressing algorithms, doing rapid
> prototyping, and a GREAT many other tasks. But it is poorly
> suited to performing low-level register and bit manipulation.
> If I wanted an inference engine, I might use prolog rather than
> Python.
>
> In the world of OSes, I think a core done in something like C
> with the higher level kernel functionality in Python would make
> an interesting system for experimenting with OS design. But
> performance is likely to be unreasonable for a "production" OS.
> Remember too, that much of what is nice about Python is that it
> provides you with easy access to OS facilities (everything from
> sockets (as a library) to memory management (in the language).
> If you were developing an OS then that wouldn't be available
> until you had built it.
>
> -- Michael Chermside

What if we had a machine whose native instruction set was Parrot bytecode?