> compiling the entire program down from anything other than C incur too much performance overhead On a system with 32KB ram, I think the biggest concern is th

> compiling the entire program down from anything other than C incur too much performance overhead On a system with 32KB ram, I think the biggest concern is the size of the final generated binary. Writing things in C or assembly will allow you to optimize for a smaller resulting image. Using higher level languages with libraries and what not, can considerably add to the generated output, and with a 32KB maximum size, that's a very real concern. And here I thought I was having troubles when I was hacking Android and needed to keep the recovery-kernel for my particular tablet below 5MB. The luxuries of modern day computing, eh? :)