On 2010-03-24 16:22, Paul Rubin wrote: > "Steve Holden, Chairman, PSF" <chair...@python.org> writes: > > We have also registered the trademark "Python" for use in reference to > > computer programming languages, thereby ensuring that we can take action > > should some ill-advised individual or organization decide to produce > > another language with "Python" in its name > > There has been a Lisp compiler called "Python" for many years: > > http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=141471.141558
The FAQ disclaims any connection and claims that Python the Lisp compiler has been around longer than Python the language... http://www.cons.org/cmucl/FAQ.html I was awfully confused the first time I came across SBCL giving me warnings about Python, though -- proves how well the PSF has safeguarded the name! > -- > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list