On Fri, 01 Apr 2011 08:38:27 -0700, Brad wrote: > I've heard of Java CPUs. Has anyone implemented a Python CPU in VHDL > or Verilog?
Java is a statically-typed language which makes a distinction between primitive types (bool, int, double, etc) and objects. Python is a dynamically-typed language which makes no such distinction. Even something as simple as "a + b" can be a primitive addition, a bigint addition, a call to a.__add__(b) or a call to b.__radd__(a), depending upon the values of a and b (which can differ for different invocations of the same code). This is one of the main reasons that statically-typed languages exist, and are used for most production software. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
