Re: Prothon on CPython intrepreter? [PROTHON]

Mark Hahn <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Aug 2004 14:44:20 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.prothon.devel
Organization Hahn Creative Applications
Message-ID <[email protected]>
In case I didn't make it clear in the previous message, I'm talking about
implementing a C-based Prothon interpreter (CProthon) by heavily modifying
the C-based Python interpreter (CPython).  This would be done carefully in
a way that would keep the Python C-based extensions compatible.

The Prothon language itself would not be compatible with the Python
language so any part of the library written in Python would need to be
manually ported.  There would be a utility to textually replace Python
constructs with Prothon constructs but this would only accomplish 90% of
the porting.

So this will not be exactly the same as Prothon on .Net where multiple
languages can use the library with 100% compatibility, but it will be quite
close, since the most interesting libraries are C extensions and the Python
to Prothon porting will be easy.