where are the program that are written in python?

Patrick Maupin pmaupin at gmail.com
Sat May 22 15:40:36 EDT 2010


On May 21, 10:30 pm, Chris Rebert <c... at rebertia.com> wrote:

> Erm, in fairness, I recall hearing that some speed-critical bits of hg
> are written in C. It does lend credence to the "Python as glue
> language" argument though; I doubt hg's extensibility and friendly
> interface would have been as easy to implement it C (particularly the
> slick instant-server feature).

Is C viewed as a "glue language" in those environments where it is the
primary tool and sometimes some small bits are recoded into assembly
language for speed?

Regards,
Pat



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