Wow, I'm surprised I didn't see that thread. I wonder if it would be possible to make a completely new program in PYTHON to act like what you would see in advanced computers.
Yes that is very possible.
Lua is designed as an embeddable language. The Lua site itself talks about how to do this with C/C++ mainly, however there is a Python package called
Lupa that lets you include a Lua interpreter into Python. Another is
Lunatic Python.
The idea is that in Python, you declare Lua functions, and Python can read and control the Lua variables.
Basically you would implement all the CC specific commands in Python.
So for one example, you would create a python function and bind it to the Lua command "turtle.forward"
In this case it's easy, just have the python function return success. Now when the Lua program says "turtle.forward()", instead of an error that the command doesn't exist, the program will get "true" back and think the turtle moved.
Ideally the python program will have some x/y/z variables and actually track where it thinks the turtle is. So in the python call, have it increment that X var.
Later you can bind a python function to the "gps.getCords" and have it return where it thinks it is.
It would be a lot of work to implement all the functions needed to keep a Lua program happy, but it's more just tedious than hard to do.
I've done similar things using TCL and C before. Not only do you get a config file format that calls commands to set things up and has access to data in variables, but all the scripting abilities of TCL right in your config file! In that sense, TCL and Lua are very similar.
As a bonus, you'll get to add "Developed software language emulator" to your resume ;}
