Jorge Vargas wrote: > On 9 Nov 2006 18:09:37 -0800, John Machin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Jorge Vargas wrote: > > > On 9 Nov 2006 16:44:40 -0800, gavino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > both are interpreted oo langauges...... > > > > > > > that is not correct java is compiled and the VM interprets the code > > > > ... and what do you think is in those pesky little .pyc files you may > > have noticed lying around on your hard disk? > > > can you open a commandline and start writting java code? no
If not, then java lacks functionality -- but that (like *all* your quibbles below) has nothing to do with the fundamental point: both languages compile into an intermediate form which is then interprerted. > > the division between java (runtime) and javac is very explicit, the > compiler catches a lot of things, in python this is threaded in a > totally different way. Again, irrelevant. > > the pyc files are just a "catching" system for the common python > developer, Do you mean "caching"? > as for the java developer the .class files are executable > code. So are .pyc files. > In python noone runs the pyc files, the interpreter takes care > of this for you. Python is more functional, but again this has nothing to do with the question. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
