"CPython"

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On 2022-06-21 03:38, Paulo da Silva wrote:
> Às 02:33 de 21/06/22, Chris Angelico escreveu:
>> On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 at 11:13, Paulo da Silva
>> <p_d_a_s_i_l_v_a_ns at nonetnoaddress.pt> wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>> 
>> Not sure why it's strange. The point is to distinguish "CPython" from
>> "Jython" or "Brython" or "PyPy" or any of the other implementations.
> Notice that they are, for example, Jython and not JPython.
> There is also Cython that is a different thing.
> 
> And YES. You have the right to not feel that as strange.
> 
Jython was originally called JPython.