On Tuesday, June 21, 2022 at 2:09:27 PM UTC+1, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2022-06-21, Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > 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've been using CPython (and reading this list) for over 20 years, and > there's no doubt in my mind that the C in CPython has always been > interpreted by 99+ percent of the Python community as meaning the > implementation language. > > Sort of like ckermit <https://www.kermitproject.org/> was the original > implementation of Kermit written in C. At the time, the other popular > implementations (for DOS, IBM, etc.) were written in assembly. >
Same here, on both counts (20+ years on this Usenet group, and CPython == "the canonical C implementation of Python") Actually, on all three counts - I remember ckermit as well ;-) Fourthly... J^n -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
