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Re:So, you want to try PyPy by DasIch on Thursday March 28, 2013 @11:00AM (#5455167)
The RPython compiler does not need to be written in RPython itself.
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Re:So, you want to try PyPy by johnyui on Thursday March 28, 2013 @07:47PM (#5458392)
He didn't say it had to be, he said it was.

"The RPython compiler is written in RPython". "The RPython compiler had to be written in RPython". See the difference? Fucking retard.

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Re:So, you want to try PyPy by yen223 on Friday March 29, 2013 @12:41AM (#5459265)
What's with the unnecessary hostility?
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Re:So, you want to try PyPy by andybak on Friday March 29, 2013 @09:12AM (#5460505)
Flagged. We don't need that kind of thing round here.
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Re:So, you want to try PyPy by fijal on Thursday March 28, 2013 @11:32PM (#5459111)
Well, it's not. RPython compiler is written in Python.
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