Python Rocks! - get rid of colons

[Lance Ellinghaus]

If you had bothered to look into how Python works, you would find that there are
two parts to it:

1) A compiler that generates byte-code (Similar to the old UCSD p-Code PASCAL
compilers used to do. Great fun to decode those!, and what the javac program
does)
2) A byte-code processing machine (Virtual Machine).

Java has both and UCSD PASCAL had both. They are/were two separate and distinct
steps.

With Python, the first step is done automaticly for you if needed, but skipped
if not needed. Kinda like auto compiling the .java files into .class files if
they needed it and if they were available.

So can we drop the "If you had bothered to use Python...." thread.. ok? This is
wasting way too much bandwidth.


-------From: "tye4"  on 01/20/2000 4:51:48 PM-------

From: "tye4" <tye4 at yahoo.com>
To: python-list
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Subject: Re: Python Rocks! - get rid of colons







Ivan Van Laningham <ivanlan at callware.com> wrote in message
news:388774C7.1784B662 at callware.com...
> Hello all--
>
> If you had bothered to use Python, you would already know that it is not
> a compiler but an interpreter.
>
If you have bothered to use Python, you should know that it is neither a
compiler nor an interpreter - but something in between: a byte-code
compiler. That's why it's fast and not sluggish like many BASIC
interpreters.

-tye4




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