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["Adam D. Moss" <adam@...>]

Tom Pike wrote:
> 	I am a developer for the P3 Project (Providing Palms for the Poor).
> Our aim is to break the poverty cycle by providing information and other
> technology services to those who are amongst the world's poorest.  We
> have had a pilot project in Soppeng, Indonesia, where farmers were
> provided with information about Biocycle farming.

That's thoroughly awesome, though 'Biocycle' farming is new to me.
Is that sustainable organic farming through intelligent crop rotation?

> 	We are well aware of Lua's small footprint, and this is a great
> advantage to us (I read a thread about how to reduce the size of Python,
> eventually it recommended using Lua!).  We are also very aware that our
> language selection has to be a good one as we will be tying ourselves to
> it for a few years once going to production.

It's an interesting question.  I guess Lua bytecode is quite
compact compared to most compiled languages (though x86 is pretty
compact) and it's an amazingly flexible language.  I think at
this point if I were faced with the same constraints as you, I'd
look hard at Lua, though I don't know what conclusions I'd come to,
since I have the luxury of not working in a hardware-embedded
environment.

--Adam
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