Fellow Gentle Contemplators of Perl,

A co-worker and I were discussing microcontrollers, wireless automation, and BASIC. It seems as though many microcontrollers have a built-in BASIC interpreter, for those who don't like programming in assembly language, perhaps. There's even one that has a JVM.

We reasoned that it need not be hard to write some sort of barebones sub-Perl interpreter to use instead of BASIC. (In fact, if there are microcontrollers with embedded Linux, there might already be a Perl available in this area, eh?).

A simplified, Pico Perl, or subPerl, or Perl-- could be just the ticket: something which supports C-like control flow and provides the Three Data Types ($@%) would be a gigantic step forward from BASIC.

So, anyone know of anything like this? Of course, as I said earlier, if they've embedded Linux, perhaps Perl 5 is already available. Anyone know anything about that?

Or how about a Parrot embedded in a microcontroller?

Gratias a vos,

rje
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In reply to Pico-Perl by rje

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