Russel Winder Wrote: | CPython is written in C but PyPy is written in RPython (*). PyPy is | about 5 times faster than CPython on most of the performance benchmarks | CPython has.
CPython is the main implementation and first Python that cameo out. It is still bleeding edge. I think that counts as a big win for C. | Wasn't the latest Perl initially written in Haskell? And Haskell in C? Besides, any compiler capable of bootstrapping itself has to be written in some other language at the beginning. It just makes me laugh when I see statement written from people using language Y, whose implementation (or even worse - whose interpreter or VM) is written in language X: "Y is faster than X!" or "X is crap and outdated!". It is just a load of BS.
