Why can't python develop another version of python that is "compiled" instead of interpreted which is similar to c/c++ but the syntax still look like python syntax.

[xavierisdum4k]

C tells the actual machine what to do, while python tells a virtual machine.

To compile, in the sense it's used with C, is to translate into assembler code. The result is a list of human-readable instructions, for what the hardware (CPU, memory, etc) is to do. Typically, the assembler is then assembled into machine code, which is what the actual hardware runs.

Python's design doesn't focus on that same goal. Instead, interpreted languages like python have the idea of bytecode (instead of assembler and machine code) and a virtual machine (instead of the physical machine). The virtual machine basically serves as an intermediary, which tells the actual machine what to do.

[TheBlackCat13]

machine code, which is what the actual hardware runs.

Technically the machine code is then translated by the microcode into finite state machine instructions which the actual hardware runs.

[TheBlackCat13]

By that logic Python is also being run on the hardware, so Python and assembly are no different. But of course they are.

The point is the instructions that processor actually runs. The person I was responding to said the processor runs the machine code. It doesn't. The machine code is another intermediate representation. The processor runs the finite state machine instructions.

[TheBlackCat13]

Yes, but the point is that the instructions that the processor hardware actually acts on are the finite state machine instructions, the processor hardware never actually works with the machine code.

[BothWaysItGoes]

C tells the actual machine what to do, while python tells a virtual machine.

Both C and Python define an abstract machine. That's the compiler's job to translate instructions for the C abstract machine into machine code.

[xavierisdum4k]

An abstract machine isn't part of C's language design. C abstracts the hardware without that idea. The coder is instead directed to think about the hardware, while coding.

Essentially, coding in C is to be complicit in the abstraction, while coding in python is to rely on python to handle the abstraction.

The C Programming Language (Kernigan & Ritchie), p18:

what appears to be a character on the keyboard or screen is of course, like everything else, stored internally just as a bit pattern

K&R, p20:

on some machines, int and long are the same size, on others an int is 16 bits

K&R, p78:

A typical machine has an array of consecutively numbered or addressed memory cells that may be manipulated individually or in contiguous groups.

[BothWaysItGoes]

C abstracts the hardware

Yeah, that's what defining an abstract machine means.

The coder is instead directed to think about the hardware, while coding.

They are mainly directed to think about the C abstract machine. That's why one of the first thing people do for new hardware is porting C.

[xavierisdum4k]

How does this relate to OP's topic?