On Jul 21, 8:50 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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.
Why do that, when gcc has a code generator for just about every 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# A bit of a non sequitur .... and C# is available on how many different MPU chips? > and Python is > akin to Visual Basic <chuckle/> > 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! Nobody wants to use C any more? > 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 The source is some outdated language and 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. It should be sublimely irrelevant to most people learning LanguageX what language LanguageX is written in. Some other implementations of Python: PyPy (written in Python), Jython (written in Java) and IronPython (written in C#). -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
