Re: RE: Prothon on CPython intrepreter? [PROTHON]

On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 08:49:30 +0100 (BST), Mukhsein Johari wrote:

>  --- Mark Hahn <[email protected]> wrote: 
>> 
>> 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
> 
> Mark, could you give some reasons as to *why* you want
> to do this? IMHO, the cool ideas you were thinking
> about (stackless etc) wrt. the prothon interpreter are
> much more interesting.

 It will still be Prothon.  I will be using prototypes, stackless, unicode
strings, flexible scoping, all the Python fixes, etc. with this scheme
also.  I will be losing native threads and object locking. 

>> 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.
> 
> This could still be done *without* utilizing the
> python interpreter. Textual replacement and manual
> greps...we don't need the python interpreter for that,
> do we?
> 
> Considering that we *still* have to port the vast
> python libs anyway... what are hoping to gain? I'm
> thinking that as more people use prothon, many will
> port their favourite python modules anyway.

No, we don't have to port the Python libs. All the interesting libs are C
extensions and they will work.  The small bits that are coded in Python
code will be easy to port manually.