Generating C++ code

Stefan Behnel stefan_ml at behnel.de
Wed Oct 10 11:34:57 EDT 2012


Jean-Michel Pichavant, 10.10.2012 17:05:
>> SoC == System On a Chip.
>>
>> It's a single-chip micro-controller embedded inside something that's
>> not a general purpose computer (e.g. it's in a router, or piece of
>> industrial equipment, or whatever). It may only have a couple MB of
>> memory, it might have only a minimal RTOS (non-Linux/Unix,
>> non-Windows), or it may actually have no OS at all.  It almost
>> certainly doesn't have a hard drive.
>>
>> Many years ago, there was a "deeply embedded Python" project that was
>> attempting to get Python running on such platforms, but it's been
>> abandoned for ages.  IIRC, it was using Python 1.50 as a base
>> version.
>>
>> Grant Edwards
> 
> Have a look at http://code.google.com/p/python-on-a-chip/
> Last news on 2011/09/26, I'm not sure the project is still alive.

For FLOSS projects, it's usually better to look at the revision history,
which, in this case, names September 3 as last entry, *this* year.

Pretty much alive, I'd say.

Stefan





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