RE: Prothon on CPython intrepreter? [PROTHON]

"Mark Hahn" <[email protected]> Tue, 10 Aug 2004 14:40:20 -0700
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.prothon.user,gmane.comp.python.devel
Message-ID <000001c47f22$a2d944a0$0b01a8c0@mark>
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.