"CPython"

[Avi Gross]

This leads to the extremely important question of what would an implementation of Python, written completely in C++, be called?
C++Python
CPython++
C+Python+
DPython
SeaPython?
SeeSeaSiPython

I don't even want to think fo what sound a C# Python would make.
OK, my apologies to all. Being an interpreted language, it makes sense for a good part of the interpreter to include parts made in other languages and also add-on libraries in even older languages like FORTRAN.  Quite a few languages, including some like R, are also partially based on C in similar ways. 

-----Original Message-----
From: Paulo da Silva <p_d_a_s_i_l_v_a_ns at nonetnoaddress.pt>
To: python-list at python.org
Sent: Mon, Jun 20, 2022 8:53 pm
Subject: Re: "CPython"

Às 20:01 de 20/06/22, Paulo da Silva escreveu:
> Às 18:19 de 20/06/22, Stefan Ram escreveu:
>>    The same personality traits that make people react
>>    to troll postings might make them spread unconfirmed
>>    ideas about the meaning of "C" in "CPython".
>>
>>    The /core/ of CPython is written in C.
>>
>>    CPython is the /canonical/ implementation of Python.
>>
>>    The "C" in "CPython" stands for C.
>>
>>
> 
> Not so "unconfirmed"!
> Look at this article, I recently read:
> https://www.analyticsinsight.net/cpython-to-step-over-javascript-in-developing-web-applications/ 
> 
> 
> There is a sentence in ther that begins with "CPython, short for Core 
> Python, a reference implementation that other Python distributions are 
> derived from, ...".
> 
> Anyway, I wrote "IMHO".
> 
> Do you have any credible reference to your assertion "The "C" in 
> "CPython" stands for C."?
> 
> Thank you.

Well ... I read the responses and they are not touching the point!
I just answered, with my opinion based on articles I have read in the 
past. Certainly I could not be sure. That's why I responded as an 
opinion (IMHO) and not as an assertion.
Stefan Ram responded with a, at least, not very polite post.
That's why I needed to somehow "defend" why I posted that response, and, 
BTW, trying to learn why he said that the C in CPython means "written in C".

I still find very strange, to not say weird, that a compiler or 
interpreter has a name based in the language it was written. But, again, 
is just my opinion and nothing more.

I rest my case.
Thank you all.
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