What other languages use the same data model as Python?

Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info
Thu May 5 10:50:36 EDT 2011


On Wed, 04 May 2011 14:58:38 -0500, harrismh777 wrote:

> Benjamin Kaplan wrote:
>> CPython is implemented in C because that's the language chosen. Python
>> is also implemented in Java, C#, Python, and several other languages.
> 
>      True enough. If I used Jython, I would want to take a look at those
> sources... as well as the Java sources... which were wrtten in, um,  C.

No, Java sources are written in Java. That's why they're *Java* sources.

Perhaps you mean that the Java compiler is written in C? Highly unlikely: 
Java compilers have been self-hosting for many years now.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hosting




-- 
Steven



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