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On Sun, Mar 27, 2016 at 1:44 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> wrote:
> If [anyone] takes over the world and bans C, insisting that it be
> replaced with a new language of his own design called "T", the
> *implementation* of CPython would have to change, but the *interface*, the
> language itself, won't have to change one iota.

Nah. We'd just be rebels and rename "gcc" to "t" and keep right on going :)

ChrisA