Why is python not written in C++ ?

[Britt]

On Aug 1, 9:34 pm, Albert Hopkins <mar... at letterboxes.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-08-02 at 01:08 +0200, candide wrote:
>
> I would propose that in fact most programming languages are implemented
> in C.  Sun's (Oracle's) Java compiler and runtime are written in ANSI C.
> The core of the Gnu Compiler Collection (which includes C++ and
> Objective-C compilers) is written in C.

The open-source GCC Ada compiler (GNAT) is written in Ada. The GPL'd
compiler source code is available at http://libre.adacore.com/libre/