Why is it impossible to create a compiler than can compile Python to machinecode like C?
Terry Reedy
tjreedy at udel.edu
Thu Feb 28 17:06:46 EST 2013
The subject line is wrong. There are multiple compilers. Someone just
listed some of them today in another post.
On 2/28/2013 3:50 PM, Matty Sarro wrote:
> Python is an interpreted language, not a compiled language.
A language is just a language. Implementations are implementations*.
That aside, I pretty much agree with the rest of the response.
* For instance, C is usually compiled, but I once used a C interpreter
on unix.
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Terry Jan Reedy
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