"CPython"

[jkn]

On Tuesday, June 21, 2022 at 2:09:27 PM UTC+1, Grant Edwards wrote:
> On 2022-06-21, Chris Angelico <ros... at gmail.com> wrote: 
> 
> > Not sure why it's strange. The point is to distinguish "CPython" from 
> > "Jython" or "Brython" or "PyPy" or any of the other implementations. 
> > Yes, CPython has a special place because it's the reference 
> > implementation and the most popular, but the one thing that makes it 
> > distinct from all the others is that it's implemented in C.
> I've been using CPython (and reading this list) for over 20 years, and 
> there's no doubt in my mind that the C in CPython has always been 
> interpreted by 99+ percent of the Python community as meaning the 
> implementation language. 
> 
> Sort of like ckermit <https://www.kermitproject.org/> was the original 
> implementation of Kermit written in C. At the time, the other popular 
> implementations (for DOS, IBM, etc.) were written in assembly. 
> 

Same here, on both counts (20+ years on this Usenet group,
 and CPython == "the canonical C implementation of Python")

Actually, on all three counts - I remember ckermit as well ;-)

Fourthly...

J^n