"H J van Rooyen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What is the minimum set of instructions and structure needed to make a > simplistic Python? - does anybody know?
There have been lots of Lisps for the PDP-11 and comparable machines. Python's runtime semantics are close enough to Lisp that you could probably get something Python-like running in that kind of machine, maybe not exactly Python. You would probably want to use small-Lisp implementation techniques like BIBOP ("big bag of pages", Google for it) memory organization. But I don't think any of those Lisps were really all that useful. They were written mostly as toys. SIOD was a well known very small Scheme interpreter that you might like to play with: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIOD -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list