[Compiler-sig] Name for Jeremy's code

[Ian Bicking]

On Wed, Feb 16, 2000 at 06:51:14AM -0800, Greg Stein wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Feb 2000, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:
> >   Jeremy needs a working name for his compiler.  I propose jpyc --
> > "Jeremy's Python Compiler".
> >   I wanted to check it out parallel to my Python checkout (which is
> > just the dist/src/ component of the Python tree), and needed a name
> > for the directory that didn't start with "py".  (Wouldn't want to type 
> > to many characters before using the shells filename completion, now!
> > Those keyboard habits are hard to change!).
> 
> Same here... but I just called it "compiler" :-)
> 
> The leading j is confusing with JPython. I say follow the P2C pattern and
> call it P2P :-)

How about Metapyc?  I don't think it's really a valid use of "meta" but
it comes out as a real word, which is nice.

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