Abelson and Python

[cfbolz at googlemail.com]

Fredrik Lundh schrieb:

> markscottwright wrote:
>
>  > If it were that easy, the PyPy guys would be done by now.
>
> if the PyPy guys had focused on writing a Python interpreter in Python,
> they'd been done by now.
>
> </F>

The "Python interpreter in Python" part of PyPy _is_ done. Since quite
a while even (something like July 2005) compilation to C works, and the
interpreter was more or less finished since quite a while before that.
There were some things missing at that point but interpretation of
Python code that didn't use any fancy builtin modules worked.

Cheers,

Carl Friedrich Bolz