On Sunday 2017-02-19 16:19, Todd Rme wrote:
On Fri, Feb 17, 2017 at 5:30 PM, Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@inai.de> wrote:
On Friday 2017-02-17 21:55, Todd Rme wrote:
As others have said, Python is an interpreted language, not a compiled language like C.
That's nonsense. Who says Python *has* to be interpreted? Who says C *has* to be compiled? Python, like C, each is a language (with a more or less large standard library behind it).. I have yet to see a language that cannot be compiled - it most likely would be some esoteric one.
I guess in principle it *might* be possible to make a python ahead-of-time compiler, or even a generally-usable python JIT (existing JITs only work in special cases)
do so have failed. Python is just too dynamic a language for this to be feasible.
The very existence of Python JITs goes counter to your claims. It may not necessarily be fast, but it's possible: """Every language can be mapped to another language. If not, then the language cannot really run on computers. Thus every language can technically be compiled. And, since any compiled program can be written in the form "interpret the act of compiling the program, then interpret the result," every program can be interpreted as well.""" - http://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/a/262286 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+owner@opensuse.org