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. 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 -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
