On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 11:24 AM, William ML Leslie <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Ugh, hit the wrong reply button.
>
> On 24 December 2012 19:24, William ML Leslie
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On 24 December 2012 19:03, anatoly techtonik <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> The PyPy description in getting started is still too scientific. I
> attach a
> >> patch with accessibility fix. =) But it is still not completely clear if
> >> PyPy's Python implementation is written in Python or in RPython?
> >
> > They aren't mutually exclusive; all rpython is python.
>

But it is still confusing, because the RPython doesn't include generators,
which means Python implementation is still written in subset of Python and
not using the real full fat Python.


> >> '''And the second is one particular implementation that is so generated
> – an
> >> implementation of the Python programming language written in Python
> >> itself.'''
> >
> > Maybe we could be even clearer - in my mind, implementations aren't
> > generated, they do have to be written (:
>

I looks like the documentation is missing one more important aspect -
RPython toolchain can be used to compile standalone programs written in
RPython (which is why I've finally got to it at the moment).


> >> If Python implementation is written in Python, and not in RPython then
> there
> >> is the missing link between the framework and implementation, which is
> >> confusing.
> >>
> >> http://doc.pypy.org/en/latest/getting-started.html#what-is-pypy
>
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