Re: [GTALUG] Looking for Someone to Answer some Questions

2019-01-15 Thread Kevin Cozens via talk
On 2019-01-14 12:35 a.m., William Park via talk wrote: It so happens that I'm looking for interpretor suitable for embedded applications. I read up on "Lua". Maybe there are other options? Without knowing the intended use case(s) it is hard to know what language(s) would be considered

Re: [GTALUG] Looking for Someone to Answer some Questions

2019-01-15 Thread Kevin Cozens via talk
On 2019-01-14 12:35 a.m., William Park via talk wrote: It so happens that I'm looking for interpretor suitable for embedded applications. I read up on "Lua". Maybe there are other options? Without knowing your intended use case(s) it is hard to know what language(s) would be considered

Re: [GTALUG] Looking for Someone to Answer some Questions - the python fork

2019-01-15 Thread Stewart Russell via talk
On Tue, Jan 15, 2019, 08:13 Alvin Starr via talk > > It may be old but if the description of the memory footprint is correct > then it looks to be the smallest implementation which has some value in > memory constrained applications. > IIRC PyMite (another name for this project) was a subset of

Re: [GTALUG] Looking for Someone to Answer some Questions

2019-01-15 Thread Alvin Starr via talk
On 1/14/19 3:16 PM, Kevin Cozens via talk wrote: On 2019-01-14 8:28 a.m., Alvin Starr via talk wrote: To my surprise there are variants of Python that can run on things as small as 8 bit microcontrollers.(https://code.google.com/archive/p/python-on-a-chip/) The dates in that repo are old.

Re: [GTALUG] Looking for Someone to Answer some Questions

2019-01-14 Thread Kevin Cozens via talk
On 2019-01-12 3:24 p.m., nick via talk wrote: I was wondering as I'm still in school if anyone knows of people who actually work in compiler design or embedded systems in the Toronto/GTA area. Do you have specific questions, or are you looking for someone who can act as a mentor for you

Re: [GTALUG] Looking for Someone to Answer some Questions

2019-01-14 Thread Kevin Cozens via talk
On 2019-01-14 8:28 a.m., Alvin Starr via talk wrote: To my surprise there are variants of Python that can run on things as small as 8 bit microcontrollers.(https://code.google.com/archive/p/python-on-a-chip/) The dates in that repo are old. If you are interested in Python for embedded systems

Re: [GTALUG] Looking for Someone to Answer some Questions

2019-01-14 Thread Stewart Russell via talk
Try Chris Tyler at Seneca CDOT again. He may not be directly involved in compiler development, but if there's anyone doing this work locally, he will know them and can introduce them to you. Stewart --- Talk Mailing List talk@gtalug.org https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk

Re: [GTALUG] Looking for Someone to Answer some Questions

2019-01-14 Thread Lennart Sorensen via talk
On Sun, Jan 13, 2019 at 06:05:17PM -0500, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > I don't know the UofT or Waterloo courses these days. Usually they > have an undergraduate compiler course. Waterloo CS used to have a famous > real-time course. I believe the word you mean is 'infamous' rather than

Re: [GTALUG] Looking for Someone to Answer some Questions

2019-01-14 Thread mwilson--- via talk
> It was nice to meet you guys this week as I use to go to GTALUG > when I was in high school but been busy for the last several > years. I was wondering as I'm still in school if anyone knows > of people who actually work in compiler design or embedded > systems in the Toronto/GTA area. ST

Re: [GTALUG] Looking for Someone to Answer some Questions

2019-01-14 Thread Alvin Starr via talk
Your question started me on a bit of a search to satisfy my own curiosity. To my surprise there are variants of Python that can run on things as small as 8 bit microcontrollers.(https://code.google.com/archive/p/python-on-a-chip/) I had also forgotten about TCL mostly because I associate it

Re: [GTALUG] Looking for Someone to Answer some Questions

2019-01-13 Thread William Park via talk
"embedded" is difficult to define. For example, any consumer electronics (routers, printers, projectors, monitors, etc) has embedded components, usually split into firmware level and interface level. I wouldn't call Raspberry Pi, Beaglebone Black, or Odroid an "embedded". My idea of "embedded"

Re: [GTALUG] Looking for Someone to Answer some Questions

2019-01-13 Thread nick via talk
On 2019-01-13 7:55 p.m., Alvin Starr wrote: > On 1/13/19 1:22 PM, nick via talk wrote: >> >> On 2019-01-13 11:25 a.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: >>> | From: nick via talk >>> >>> | I was wondering as I'm still in school >>> >>> What school? >> I'm at Seneca but I also asked UoT

Re: [GTALUG] Looking for Someone to Answer some Questions

2019-01-13 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
| From: nick via talk | On 2019-01-13 11:25 a.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: | > | From: nick via talk | > | > | I was wondering as I'm still in school | > | > What school? | I'm at Seneca Seneca @ York seems to be deeply involved in Linux. Is that where you are? Prof Chris Tyler

Re: [GTALUG] Looking for Someone to Answer some Questions

2019-01-13 Thread nick via talk
On 2019-01-13 11:25 a.m., D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote: > | From: nick via talk > > | I was wondering as I'm still in school > > What school? I'm at Seneca but I also asked UoT students and for whatever reason most students are going into web so that's the assumption or mobile. Which is

Re: [GTALUG] Looking for Someone to Answer some Questions

2019-01-13 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
| From: nick via talk | I was wondering as I'm still in school What school? | if anyone knows | of people who actually work in compiler design Compiler design: not a big field. Most compilers that take a team are already designed. There is a group at the IBM Toronto lab that works on their

[GTALUG] Looking for Someone to Answer some Questions

2019-01-12 Thread nick via talk
Greetings All, It was nice to meet you guys this week as I use to go to GTALUG when I was in high school but been busy for the last several years. I was wondering as I'm still in school if anyone knows of people who actually work in compiler design or embedded systems in the Toronto/GTA area.