Author: anatoly techtonik <techto...@gmail.com> Branch: techtonik/introductionrst-simplify-explanation-abo-1460879168046 Changeset: r83822:4ee4bced5787 Date: 2016-04-17 07:55 +0000 http://bitbucket.org/pypy/pypy/changeset/4ee4bced5787/
Log: introduction.rst simplify explanation about PyPy diff --git a/pypy/doc/introduction.rst b/pypy/doc/introduction.rst --- a/pypy/doc/introduction.rst +++ b/pypy/doc/introduction.rst @@ -1,16 +1,17 @@ What is PyPy? ============= -In common parlance, PyPy has been used to mean two things. The first is the -:ref:`RPython translation toolchain <rpython:index>`, which is a framework for generating -dynamic programming language implementations. And the second is one -particular implementation that is so generated -- -an implementation of the Python_ programming language written in -Python itself. It is designed to be flexible and easy to experiment with. +Historically, PyPy has been used to mean two things. The first is the +:ref:`RPython translation toolchain <rpython:index>` for generating +interpreters for dynamic programming languages. And the second is one +particular implementation generated with it -- an implementation of the +Python_. Because RPython uses the same syntax as Python, this generated +version became known as Python interpreter written in Python. This was +designed to be flexible and easy to experiment with. -This double usage has proven to be confusing, and we are trying to move -away from using the word PyPy to mean both things. From now on we will -try to use PyPy to only mean the Python implementation, and say the +Double usage has proven to be confusing, so we've moved away from using +the word PyPy to mean both things. Now we use word PyPy to refer to +the Python implementation, and explicitly mention :ref:`RPython translation toolchain <rpython:index>` when we mean the framework. Some older documents, presentations, papers and videos will still have the old _______________________________________________ pypy-commit mailing list pypy-commit@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/pypy-commit
