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> And the limiting factor is probably python.
I had a little iPAQ and when Compaq ported Linux to it, I went for it. One of the things I wanted to do was be able to write programs, and there was just 32MB of storage, so gcc didn't fit, Perl didn't fit. I had an assembler, and there were packages for two other languages that fit in a couple of megs: Python and Ruby. I read a little of the Pickaxe Book and I was basically horrified by the typical OO "dog is a kind of animal" tutorial shit in it so I looked at a Python tutorial and saw the syntactically significant whitespace and that is how I learned Ruby.
(Using vi with gestures was a real adventure.)