"CPython"

Dennis Lee Bieber wlfraed at ix.netcom.com
Tue Jun 21 08:29:43 EDT 2022


On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 01:53:38 +0100, Paulo da Silva
<p_d_a_s_i_l_v_a_ns at nonetnoaddress.pt> declaimed the following:


>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.
>

	The whole purpose for that was to differentiate from Python /language/
implemented in OTHER languages. IronPython is a M$ .NET/C# implementation,
Jython is a JVM/Java implementation.

	When you just say "Python" you are referring to ALL of those
implementations.


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