On 2022-06-21 02:33, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Tue, 21 Jun 2022 at 11:13, Paulo da Silva
<p_d_a_s_i_l_v_a...@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.
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.
And just to make it clear, the interpreter/compiler _itself_ is still
called "python". "CPython" is a name/term that was applied retroactively
to that particular implementation when another implementation appeared.
I could, perhaps, create my own interpreter and name it "RosuavPython"
after myself, but when something's made by a team, it's usually more
useful to pick something that is fundamental to it (Brython is
designed to be run in a browser, Jython is written in Python to make
it easy to call on Java classes, etc).
ChrisA
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