CPython is the name of the implementation, but python.org offers you to download Python, not CPython. CPython is an internal name kind of like php-src (more or less). In fact, as an average end user, you'd not know about CPython at all.
Jython, JyJy, etc. - don't call themselves 'Python', they're implementations of the Python language. Zeev > -----Original Message----- > From: Andrea Faulds [mailto:a...@ajf.me] > Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2014 11:19 PM > To: Zeev Suraski > Cc: Sara Golemon; Rowan Collins; PHP internals > Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Language Specification > > > On 24 Jul 2014, at 21:12, Zeev Suraski <z...@zend.com> wrote: > > > Other opensource languages that have multiple implementations, still > > have the 'official' release with the original name, while other > > implementations have separate, different names that implement 'the XYZ > > language' or 'the ABC spec'. > > > > E.g., there's Jython, Cython, PyPy - but the original Python is still > > Python. > > Python might be a poor example. The "original Python" is called CPython. > > In technical discussions it would be very useful to have a proper name for the > vanilla implementation, even though most people are going to call it PHP > anyway. > -- > Andrea Faulds > http://ajf.me/ > > > -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
