On-topic: alternate Python implementations

Stefan Krah stefan-usenet at bytereef.org
Sat Aug 4 07:18:02 EDT 2012


Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
> Who would want to deal with C's idiosyncrasies, low-powered explicit type 
> system, difficult syntax, and core-dumps, when you could use something 
> better?

In the free software world, apparently many people like C. C is also
quite popular in the zero-fault software world: Several verification
tools do exist and Leroy et al. are writing a certified compiler for
C to plug the hole between the verified source code and the generated
assembly.


Stefan Krah






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