On Jul 20, 5:50 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm just learning about Python now and it sounds interesting. But I > just read (on the Wiki page) that mainstream Python was written in C. > That's what I was searching for: Python was written in what other > language? > > See, my concern was something like: OK, if Python is so hot, then, > hopefully someone is writing it in assembly language for each MPU chip > out there. Otherwise, if, say, they've written it in C#, then it looks > like the REAL, generally useful language to learn is C# and Python is > akin to Visual Basic or something: a specialty language....whereas > REAL WORLD programmers who want to be generally useful go and learn > C#. > > So I was suspecting the Python compiler or interpreter is written in a > REAL language like C#. So, Wiki says it's written in C! It's almost as > if it were an intentional trick...write your own, new language in an > OLD, real world language that is passe. Compile it into executable > modules of course, so it is a real, working compiler, alright. But the > SOURCE is some old, high level language which no one wants to use > anymore! So now you've got a hot new language package and no one can > say "well, it is written in, the SOURCE code is written in, a REAL > language." No, it's not! The source is some outdated language and > compiler and no one is going to prefer learning THAT to learning your > hot new language! > > I'm not dissing Python, here. Just noting that, if it is written in C, > that throws a curve at me in trying to balance the value of learning > Python vs. some other major language.
Sounds like you program only because someone's paying you. Any programmer who says that C is outdated and not real *is* outdated and not real. Not used anymore? Mmmmm I wonder, have you heard of something called "Linux"? The open source Unix-like system? Or perhaps you are familiar with "Apache"? Does "GNOME" ring any bells to you? "Vim"? "Git"? You got some serious research to do, STFW. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
