[Coco] Re: Other languages for OS-9

[Alex Evans]

On Sep 13, 2006, at 11:13 AM, Joel Ewy wrote:

> Not sure about Python, but somebody from the EFFO emailed me a  
> binary of
> Perl for 68K probably 10 years ago.  It's a rather old version of Perl
> obviously, and I never got the source.  I think the chances of getting
> anything like Perl or Python running usefully on the CoCo are fairly
> slim.  I've been doing a lot with Damn Small Linux recently, which  
> uses
> Lua for most of its scripting needs.  It's much lighter and supposedly
> faster than Perl or Python, and does run nicely on machines as slow  
> as a
> Pentium-133.  Of course that in itself says nothing about its
> suitability to the CoCo.

I have a copy of perl 5.8.0 running on m68k.  I also have a  
reasonably recent Python and ruby binary for m68k.  If you have a  
recent enough version of gcc up and running getting these  
interpreters up and running isn't too difficult.