Python Written in C?

[Larry Bates]

Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2008-07-22, Larry Bates <larry.bates at websafe.com`> wrote:
> 
>> You talk about "writing it in assembly language for each MPU
>> chip".  Actually it is even better than that.  We now have
>> these modern inventions, called compilers that do that type of
>> work for us.  They translate high level instructions, not 
>> into assembler but into machine language.
> 
> Actually, all of the compilers I'm familiar with (gcc and a
> handful of cross compilers for various microprocessors)
> translate from high-level languages (e.g. C, C++) into
> assembly, which is then assembled into relocatable object
> files, which are then linked/loaded to produce machine
> language.
> 
I just learned something I did not know.  I was under the impression that they 
translated directly to machine code without ever actually generating Assembler 
text files.  Seems like a waste to generate the text and turn around run that 
through the assembler, but what do I know.  I guess that way the compiler can 
have pluggable assembler back-ends.

-Larry