New member intro and question

[Kushal Kumaran]

Hi Anthony,

Welcome to the python users mailing list.

On Sat, Jun 18, 2011 at 9:32 AM, Anthony Papillion <papillion at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Everyone,
>
> <gush>
> I'm a new list member from the United States. Long time programmer,
> fairly new to Python and absolutely loving it so far! I'm 36, live in
> Oklahoma, and own a small Linux software development and consulting
> firm. Python has made my life a *lot* easier and, the more I learn,
> the easier it gets. Simply blown away.
> </gush>
>
> Now, for my question: I'm taking on a project that will run on plug
> computers and I'm thinking about using Python to do it. It seems like
> a really attractive option over C/C++ and I think it would cut down
> the dev time immensely. I know a scaled down version of Debian can run
> on the computer but I'm wondering about Python.
>
> Has anyone ever used Python to develop for extremely limited resource
> computers like this? Specifically, I'm going to be using the DreamPlug
> (http://www.geek.com/articles/gadgets/dreamplug-puts-a-1-2ghz-arm-pc-in-a-power-outlet-2011022/)
> which isn't too shabby but I wonder if it will work.
>

>From the link you've given, I see that the device has a 1.2GHz ARM
processor and 512M RAM.  That doesn't sound like an extremely limited
resource device.  Python runs very well on a Nokia N900, for example,
which has a 600MHz ARM processor and 256M RAM (from memory, might not
be exact).

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regards,
kushal