Re: Perl and Robots

Given a sufficiently large IC, sure it might be conceivable . . .

Despite the lack of information (e.g. a link to some information about what the frell a "parrallax basic stamp" is), I'm going to say the answer's probably "no". Perl likes a whole lot of room to work in and freely trades RAM for programmer efficiency and doesn't lend itself to tiny platforms (search for some of the threads about Perl on PDAs).

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Re^2: Perl and Robots by hardburn (Abbot) on Jan 24, 2005 at 19:01 UTC
A BASIC stamp is a small microcontroller that implements a form of BASIC. It's popular in small robotics applications. For more info, Google is your friend. To answer the orginal question, no, a BASIC stamp is almost certainly not going to run Perl. There simply isn't enough RAM available. You'll need something heaftier, like an ARM with a few megs of RAM. P.S., we need to gather a Farscape fanclub on PM :) "There is no shame in being self-taught, only in not trying to learn in the first place." -- Atrus, Myst: The Book of D'ni.	[reply]

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Re^2: Perl and Robots
by hardburn (Abbot) on Jan 24, 2005 at 19:01 UTC

A BASIC stamp is a small microcontroller that implements a form of BASIC. It's popular in small robotics applications. For more info, Google is your friend.

To answer the orginal question, no, a BASIC stamp is almost certainly not going to run Perl. There simply isn't enough RAM available. You'll need something heaftier, like an ARM with a few megs of RAM.

P.S., we need to gather a Farscape fanclub on PM :)

"There is no shame in being self-taught, only in not trying to learn in the first place." -- Atrus, Myst: The Book of D'ni.

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