On Feb 7, 11:25 pm, Hrvoje Niksic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Be fair -- he's asking what specific features of Python make it > > hard. That's a reasonable question. > > Indeed. The best explanation I've seen explained goes something like > this: imagine a hypothetical Python compiler that achieves native > compilation by compiling to Common Lisp and using the CL's compiler to > produce native code. Upon encountering the expression such as: > > a + b > > the compiler could do little else except translate it to something > like: > > (python:add a b) [snip more interesting considerations about compiling python]
Please get back on topic. This discussion is about parsecs and wookies now. -- Arnaud -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
