Python use growing or shrinking

Justin Guerin jguerin at cso.atmel.com
Wed Jan 22 15:58:20 EST 2003


On Wednesday 22 January 2003 01:21 pm, Terry Hancock wrote:
> Alan James Salmoni wrote:
> > I suppose somebody had better tell NASA that they shouldn't be using
> > Python. And saying that Basic is better for "industrial,
> > mission-critical software systems" than Ada? I thought that was
> > precisely the kind of task that Ada excels at (things like control
> > systems for nuclear power stations, missile control systems and the
> > like).
>
> Hey. Has anybody tried to write a Python interpreter in Ada? I guess it
> would be called Aython.
>
> Sorry, I'll shut up now.  ;-D
>
> Terry

Wait... I thought Python was mostly written in C, which means it should be 
Cython.  Is it actually written in Pascal or <gasp> Perl?

Justin






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