Python Written in C?

[Tom Machinski]

On Mon, Jul 21, 2008 at 3:53 PM, DaveM <asma61 at dsl.pipex.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 03:18:01 +0200, Michiel Overtoom <motoom at xs4all.nl>
> wrote:
>
>
> >Many major text/word processing programs (Emacs, vi, MS-Word) are also
> >written in C.
>
> I thought Emacs was written in Lisp.


Large parts of Emacs are indeed implemented in Emacs Lisp. There's are some
core functions implemented in C.

MS-Word, afaik, had very substantial parts written in Visual Basic.

Tom


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