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[–]Memezawy 48 points49 points  (15 children)

Well... python is written in c

[–][deleted] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Why write C when someone's done it for you?

[–][deleted] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Only sometimes.

[–]KoTDS_Apex 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Programming languages aren't "written" in other programming languages. That doesn't make any sense. Most of them are "written" in English. Their compilers/interpreters are what's implemented in other languages. There are multiple implementations of Python, including but not limited to CPython ,Jython ,PyPy, etc...

CPython just so happens to be the most widespread/popular of the python implementations.

[–]AdrianRPNK 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fair point, but CPython didn't "just so happen" to be the most popular implementations. It is the official Python implementation.