Using the Python Interpreter as a Reference

[Dan Stromberg]

On Sun, Nov 20, 2011 at 4:46 PM, Travis Parks <jehugaleahsa at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hello:
>
> I am currently working on designing a new programming language. It is
> a compiled language, but I still want to use Python as a reference.
> Python has a lot of similarities to my language, such as indentation
> for code blocks, lambdas, non-locals and my language will partially
> support dynamic programming.
>

FWIW, comprehensions are often nicer than lambdas.

You might want to check out PyPy.  It's written in a more flexible
implementation language than CPython, and facilitates writing languages -
IOW, PyPy is more than just Python written in Python.
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