Python Written in C?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2008-07-23, mk <mrkafk at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Actually, all of the compilers I'm familiar with (gcc and a
>> handful of cross compilers for various microprocessors)
>> translate from high-level languages (e.g. C, C++) into
>> assembly, which is then assembled into relocatable object
>> files, which are then linked/loaded to produce machine
>> language.
>
> Doesn't g++ translate C++ into C and then compile C?

No.

> Last I heard, most C++ compilers were doing that.

A decade or two ago there were some C++ front-ends that did
that, but I don't think it's common in modern C++ compilers.

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