python for microcontrollers

[David Cuthbert]

Paul Rubin wrote:
> I don't think you want to do this.  Runtime type tags and the overhead
> of checking them on every operation will kill you all by themselves.
> Processors like that haven't been used much as Lisp targets either,
> for the same reasons.  Pick a different language.

I was thinking that you could avoid this by adding some type inference 
to Python and/or reducing everything to two basic types (strings and 
ints), but the end result would require a lot of work and not look much 
like Python.

For a PIC, I'm not even sure I'd want to use C++.  Then again, I'm not 
much of a fan of BASIC stamp modules, either, so...