Plethora of Pythons (was: Re: IronPython-0.6 is now available!)

[John J. Lee]

simoninusa2001 at yahoo.co.uk (simo) writes:

> flacco <flacco003 at spambadTwilight-systems.com> wrote:
> 
> > > IronPython is currently at a pre-alpha stage suitable for
> > > experimentation but not for serious development work.
> 
> Yeah, very pre-alpha from the few tests I did, but I'm very excited
> about this, especially as it seems the Parrot guys have given up on
> Python :-(
[...]

Hey, I just realised how many Python implementations there are now:

Useful:

CPython
Jython
Stackless
psyco

On their way:

IronPython
PyPy
parrot?
Starkiller?

Not such a short list.

Maybe standardisation committees are just round the corner.  Oh joy.


and a few close descendants, of course:

Pyrex
Prothon
Boo
Vyper (defunct)


John