I'm building an Home Automation (HA) controller to replace my older HA
> controller. I've found a nice little 200 MHz ARM which has the
> matching I/O I need (digital, analog, serial and then some). The old
> system has an embedded language call XPRESS (if/then/else, math,
> simple stuff). I'm wondering if I should try to learn to write a
> language parser or should I use something like Perl, Python or
> Ruby. Any suggestions?
>
Python is good choice for such an application. Tcl would also do.