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Re: py2c - an open source Python to C/C++ is looking for developers

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Date 2012-09-01 20:15 -0700
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Subject Re: py2c - an open source Python to C/C++ is looking for developers
From Ramchandra Apte <maniandram01@gmail.com>

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On Tuesday, 31 July 2012 18:16:27 UTC+5:30, Stefan Behnel  wrote:
> Stefan Behnel, 31.07.2012 07:23:
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> > From a look at the source code, it seems hard to bring it together with
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> > anything. It looks very monolithic.
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> Hmm, sorry, I mixed it up with "2c.py", which is yet another of those
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> Python-to-C compilers with an all too similar name.
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> https://code.google.com/p/2c-python/
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> There are a couple of others here:
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> http://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonImplementations
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> Seeing the number of those compilers, almost none of which is commonly used
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> and/or still alive as a project, the question really is: why another one?
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> I mean, it's totally fine as a hobby educational project, sure, and I
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> really don't want to discourage anyone from going through this to have fun.
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> But apart from "just for fun", what is the goal that would make this
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> particular compiler different from the others? And also different enough to
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> merit its own source base, instead of basing it on one of the existing
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> projects? I don't consider "source is harder to read than to write" a good
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> answer to this in general.

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> Stefan

It converts to *pure* C/C++ *without* using Python or its API so that it can be the same speed as C/C++

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py2c - an open source Python to C/C++ is looking for developers maniandram01@gmail.com - 2012-07-30 06:27 -0700
  Re: py2c - an open source Python to C/C++ is looking for developers andrea crotti <andrea.crotti.0@gmail.com> - 2012-07-30 16:08 +0100
  Re: py2c - an open source Python to C/C++ is looking for developers MaxTheMouse <maxthemouse@googlemail.com> - 2012-07-30 09:42 -0700
    Re: py2c - an open source Python to C/C++ is looking for developers alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2012-07-30 17:16 -0700
      Re: py2c - an open source Python to C/C++ is looking for developers Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2012-07-31 07:23 +0200
      Re: py2c - an open source Python to C/C++ is looking for developers Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2012-07-31 14:46 +0200
        Re: py2c - an open source Python to C/C++ is looking for developers Ramchandra Apte <maniandram01@gmail.com> - 2012-09-01 20:15 -0700
          Re: py2c - an open source Python to C/C++ is looking for developers Michael Torrie <torriem@gmail.com> - 2012-09-01 23:27 -0600
            Re: py2c - an open source Python to C/C++ is looking for developers Ramchandra Apte <maniandram01@gmail.com> - 2012-09-01 23:10 -0700
              Re: py2c - an open source Python to C/C++ is looking for developers Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2012-09-02 08:27 +0200
            Re: py2c - an open source Python to C/C++ is looking for developers Ramchandra Apte <maniandram01@gmail.com> - 2012-09-01 23:10 -0700
            Re: py2c - an open source Python to C/C++ is looking for developers Ramchandra Apte <maniandram01@gmail.com> - 2012-09-01 23:16 -0700
              Re: py2c - an open source Python to C/C++ is looking for developers Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-09-02 09:43 +0100
            Re: py2c - an open source Python to C/C++ is looking for developers Ramchandra Apte <maniandram01@gmail.com> - 2012-09-01 23:16 -0700
          Re: py2c - an open source Python to C/C++ is looking for developers Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> - 2012-09-02 10:23 +0300
            Re: py2c - an open source Python to C/C++ is looking for developers Ramchandra Apte <maniandram01@gmail.com> - 2012-09-02 06:46 -0700
            Re: py2c - an open source Python to C/C++ is looking for developers Ramchandra Apte <maniandram01@gmail.com> - 2012-09-02 06:46 -0700
        Re: py2c - an open source Python to C/C++ is looking for developers Ramchandra Apte <maniandram01@gmail.com> - 2012-09-01 20:15 -0700

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