Greg Ewing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > PyPy looks like the best vehicle for that so far. See > > http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/html/M/MFTL.html > > for the canonical remark about languages that can't be used to > > implement their own compilers. > > Which makes it clear that the remark is only intended to apply to > *compiled* languages.
Yes, there are several Python compilers already, (Psyco, Jython followed up by your favorite JIT compiler, IronPython (similarly), Pyrex (not quite the same input language but I think it should be counted), etc. It's true that CPython doesn't have a compiler and that's a serious deficiency. A lot of Python language features don't play that well with compilation, and that's often unnecessary. So I hope the baseline implementation changes to a compiled one before the language evolves too much more. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list