On-topic: alternate Python implementations

Stefan Behnel stefan_ml at behnel.de
Sat Aug 4 09:53:41 EDT 2012


Thomas Rachel, 04.08.2012 14:51:
> Am 04.08.2012 11:10 schrieb Stefan Behnel:
>> As long as you don't use any features of the Cython language, it's plain
>> Python. That makes it a Python compiler in my eyes.
> 
> Tell that the C++ guys. C++ is mainly a superset of C. But nevertheless, C
> and C++ are distinct languages and so are Python and Cython.

So, if a C++ compiler takes a .c file and compiles it with C language
semantics, it doesn't qualify as a C compiler? That implies a rather weird
definition of a C compiler, I'd say.

Stefan





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