Give One Get One laptop for software development

[M. Edward (Ed) Borasky]

Jeffrey Kesselman wrote:
> The discussion thread rather looks like it suffered from a 'too many
> cooks" problem.
> 
> Aren't there any existing small ide's written in pyton for python?

The two main IDEs for Python are "Eric" and "Idle" (bonus points for
knowing who Eric Idle is and what *other* group besides Monty Python he
belonged to.) :)

That said, IIRC a lot of the Python numeric code is bundled into the XO
base, and a lot of *that* is already optimized. For example, the Atlas
linear algebra library is on the XO (although it's the i386 version --
it's not yet optimized for the Geode). So I am guessing the original
task -- elliptic curve cryptography -- could well be done efficiently on
the XO in Python using "pippy" as the IDE.