"Robert Kern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Terry Reedy wrote: >> Nor has 386 'machine language' suffered from being interpreted, at a >> deeper >> level, by microcode. > > I think both you and Paul may be missing Tim's point. I don't think he's > talking about "suffering" in technical respects, like speed. He's > talking about popularity.
I knew that ;-) and meant that ;;--)). Of course, many people don't know that 'machine code' is often now interpreted -- nor that Python code is compiled to something by all current implementations. Perhaps we should call the CPython 'interpreter' the CPython interpreter-compiler that it is. Terry J. Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
