c(++)python?

[Stephen Boulet]

This is just something I've wondered about, and not intended to be a
troll.

Why is the most popular implementation of python in C? A novice
programmer (like myself) might think:  "python is itself an
object-oriented language, so it would make sense to implement it in
another object-oriented language."

Is this in fact the case, or was c++ not standardized/mature enough
when python first came out?

-- Stephen