Timeline for What does it mean that "language A is written in language B"?
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| Nov 23, 2012 at 16:21 | comment | added | Songo | @MartijnPieters Thanks a lot for the links. Just what I was looking for. | |
| Nov 23, 2012 at 12:42 | comment | added | Martijn Pieters | @Songo: The Jython implementation in Java, the IronPython implementation in C#. | |
| Nov 23, 2012 at 11:59 | comment | added | Martijn Pieters | @Songo: Other than that string.lower(s) is a python function that delegates that to return s.lower(), that is correct. The CPython 3.3 string case operations are implemented in C. | |
| Nov 20, 2012 at 19:16 | comment | added | Russell Borogove | Some of Python's standard library is written in Python for portability and convenience, but otherwise I believe that's correct. | |
| Nov 20, 2012 at 17:37 | comment | added | Songo | @YannisRizos hmmm So if I have a built-in function in Python for example string.lower(s) which takes a String and returns another one with upper case letters converted to lower case, its implementation (i.e. the code that will operate on the string to produce the output) is written in C for CPython, Java for Jython and C# for IronPython, right? Is that similar to what Google did to Android where the apps are written in Java, but the libraries used to run them are those of Google not Oracle? | |
| Nov 20, 2012 at 17:27 | comment | added | Andres F. | @YannisRizos Isn't Unladen Swallow dead as well? | |
| Nov 20, 2012 at 12:19 | comment | added | yannis | @MartijnPieters It's also a dead project, according to its site. Removed. | |
| Nov 20, 2012 at 12:19 | history | edited | yannis | CC BY-SA 3.0 | deleted 32 characters in body |
| Nov 20, 2012 at 12:01 | comment | added | Martijn Pieters | I wouldn't call Psyco another implementation, since it runs as an extension to CPython. | |
| Nov 20, 2012 at 11:48 | history | edited | yannis | CC BY-SA 3.0 | added 12 characters in body |
| Nov 20, 2012 at 11:41 | history | answered | yannis | CC BY-SA 3.0 |