This leads to the extremely important question of what would an implementation of Python, written completely in C++, be called? C++Python CPython++ C+Python+ DPython SeaPython? SeeSeaSiPython
I don't even want to think fo what sound a C# Python would make. OK, my apologies to all. Being an interpreted language, it makes sense for a good part of the interpreter to include parts made in other languages and also add-on libraries in even older languages like FORTRAN. Quite a few languages, including some like R, are also partially based on C in similar ways. -----Original Message----- From: Paulo da Silva <p_d_a_s_i_l_v_a...@nonetnoaddress.pt> To: python-list@python.org Sent: Mon, Jun 20, 2022 8:53 pm Subject: Re: "CPython" 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. I rest my case. Thank you all. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list