In article <4c55fe82$0$9111$426a3...@news.free.fr>, candide <cand...@free.invalid> wrote:
> Python is an object oriented langage (OOL). The Python main > implementation is written in pure and "old" C90. Is it for historical > reasons? > > C is not an OOL and C++ strongly is. I wonder if it wouldn't be more > suitable to implement an OOL with another one. One thing that comes to mind is that it's much easier to distribute C libraries than C++ libraries. If I compile a main program with one C compiler and you compile a dynamically loaded library with another C compiler on the same box, the odds are pretty good they'll interoperate without any problems. Not at all so with C++ compilers. The linkage is *way* more complicated. Not just how the two compilers do name mangling, but how they handle exceptions, RVO, and a zillion other details. Pretty much the only way to make it work is to compile everything with exactly the same compiler. That would make it pretty close to impossible for people to take a Python core distribution and add their own extension modules to it. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
