On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 10:44 AM, John Nagle <na...@animats.com> wrote:
> On 8/1/2010 5:36 PM, Roy Smith wrote: > >> In article<4c55fe82$0$9111$426a3...@news.free.fr>, >> candide<cand...@free.invalid> wrote: >> >> Python is an object oriented langage (OOL). The Python main >>> implementation is written in pure and "old" C90. Is it for historical >>> reasons? >>> >>> C is not an OOL and C++ strongly is. I wonder if it wouldn't be more >>> suitable to implement an OOL with another one. >>> >> >> One thing that comes to mind is that it's much easier to distribute C >> libraries than C++ libraries. >> >> If I compile a main program with one C compiler and you compile a >> dynamically loaded library with another C compiler on the same box, the >> odds are pretty good they'll interoperate without any problems. >> > > Not for Python. Extensions have to be built with essentially the > same version of the same C compiler used for building Python. This > is a major headache. > > John Nagle > -- > Pretty sure that's only one Windows, and only because they need to be linked to the same version of MSVC. It's not a compiler issue, it's incompatible library versions. > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
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