I'm just learning about Python now and it sounds interesting. But I just read (on the Wiki page) that mainstream Python was written in C. That's what I was searching for: Python was written in what other language?
See, my concern was something like: OK, if Python is so hot, then, hopefully someone is writing it in assembly language for each MPU chip out there. Otherwise, if, say, they've written it in C#, then it looks like the REAL, generally useful language to learn is C# and Python is akin to Visual Basic or something: a specialty language....whereas REAL WORLD programmers who want to be generally useful go and learn C#. So I was suspecting the Python compiler or interpreter is written in a REAL language like C#. So, Wiki says it's written in C! It's almost as if it were an intentional trick...write your own, new language in an OLD, real world language that is passe. Compile it into executable modules of course, so it is a real, working compiler, alright. But the SOURCE is some old, high level language which no one wants to use anymore! So now you've got a hot new language package and no one can say "well, it is written in, the SOURCE code is written in, a REAL language." No, it's not! The source is some outdated language and compiler and no one is going to prefer learning THAT to learning your hot new language! I'm not dissing Python, here. Just noting that, if it is written in C, that throws a curve at me in trying to balance the value of learning Python vs. some other major language. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
