[pypy-dev] PyPy in getting started

[William ML Leslie]

Ugh, hit the wrong reply button.

On 24 December 2012 19:24, William ML Leslie
<william.leslie.ttg at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 24 December 2012 19:03, anatoly techtonik <techtonik at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The PyPy description in getting started is still too scientific. I attach a
>> patch with accessibility fix. =) But it is still not completely clear if
>> PyPy's Python implementation is written in Python or in RPython?
>
> They aren't mutually exclusive; all rpython is python.
>
>> '''And the second is one particular implementation that is so generated – an
>> implementation of the Python programming language written in Python
>> itself.'''
>
> Maybe we could be even clearer - in my mind, implementations aren't
> generated, they do have to be written (:
>
>> If Python implementation is written in Python, and not in RPython then there
>> is the missing link between the framework and implementation, which is
>> confusing.
>>
>> http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/getting-started.html#what-is-pypy
>> --
>> anatoly t.
>
> --
> William Leslie



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William Leslie