Roel Schroeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > C OTOH was designed to be compiled to assembly code (or directly to > machine code) and as a result there are no (or virtually) no > implementations that interpret C or compile it to bytecode.
Have you considered Microsoft's C/C++ compiler targetted at .Net. That compiles to a bytecode known as MSIL which is then interpreted and/or JIT compiled to machine code. > I love Python, but IMHO it's a bit silly to maintain that the fact that > Python compiles to byte code instead of assembly code/machine code is > purely a matter of implementation; on the contrary, I believe it's a > result of its design. I also think that there's a large difference > between byte code and machine code (in Python's case; I haven't looked > at other languages), and that it's a bit silly to try to trivialize that > difference. And then there's IronPython which is targetted at .Net. That compiles to a bytecode known as MSIL which is then interpreted and/or JIT compiled to machine code. -- Duncan Booth http://kupuguy.blogspot.com -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
