--- Timothy Fitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 8/29/06, Kris Schnee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Will I be able to use PyPy to build a Python emulator? > > What do you mean here by emulator? > "Python emulator" is kind of the wrong term to use, I think, because emulator implies a complete system like a piece of hardware, wheras a programming language is incomplete without the context of the platform, runtime environment, implementation, etc. So a project like WINE counts as an emulator(despite the title) because Windows is a software platform for x86 hardware. But languages are more "fuzzy" in their behavior and can't guarantee a 100% compatible behavior when communication with the OS or hardware is necessary. So we talk of varying implementations of a language and how they compare with each other - Python has a de-facto standard, CPython, and a couple of others, including PyPy. So the answer to the original question is "sort of," since PyPy can build itself, and build it to be functionally equivalent, but that doesn't mean it's equivalent to CPython. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
