Andrew Brown has posted the first part of a tutorial on how to use PyPy to create an interpreter for a new language. “Wouldn’t it be nice if you could write your language in an existing high level language like, for example, Python? That sure would be ideal, you’d get all the advantages of a high level language like automatic memory management and rich data types at your disposal. Oh, but an interpreted language interpreting another language would be slow, right? That’s twice as much interpreting going on. As you may have guessed, PyPy solves this problem.“
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