On-topic: alternate Python implementations

Tim Roberts timr at probo.com
Sat Aug 4 16:07:58 EDT 2012


Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
>
>Most people are aware, if only vaguely, of the big Four Python 
>implementations:
>
>CPython, or just Python, the reference implementation written in C.
>IronPython, written in .NET.

Technicality:  .NET is not a language, it is a run-time framework.
IronPython is written in C#.  It generates code that runs in the .NET
Framework.
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Tim Roberts, timr at probo.com
Providenza & Boekelheide, Inc.



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