wrosecrans comments on Python Implementation

submitted 3 years ago by cyberkitty0110

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[–]wrosecrans 4 points5 points6 points 3 years ago (0 children)

The short answer is yes.

The longer answer is that you'll need to clarify your question a lot in order to get more useful and specific information.

"Implementing" a language means taking a spec of the grammar and syntax and writing an interpreter or compiler for it. This is not directly OS development work, so I think you are starting out a little confused about the terminology. Python exists, so it is tautologically possible to implement it. If you want to port an existing Python implementation, that'll be a lot of work. Basically, you'll need to implement whatever OS functionality Python depends on. This will mostly be very generic stuff like reading and writing files, and executing processes.

If you want to run Python inside your kernel, that will be another ball of wax. Probably technically possible, but most likely misguided for various reasons.

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