how is python not the same as java?

Bruno Desthuilliers onurb at xiludom.gro
Fri Nov 10 05:01:49 EST 2006


gavino wrote:
> both are interpreted oo langauges......

Being "interpreted" or whatever is a feature of an *implementation*, not
of a language.

FWIW, CPython (the reference implementation) is compiled to byte-code,
that is then executed by a virtual machine. And Sun's Java
implementation works the same.

-- 
bruno desthuilliers
python -c "print '@'.join(['.'.join([w[::-1] for w in p.split('.')]) for
p in 'onurb at xiludom.gro'.split('@')])"



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