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[Josiah Carlson]

Michel Claveau wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> This image show IronPython.
> But... what is it?
> 
> Link :
> http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/bb510103.vss_IronPython_large.jpg

What is generally referred to as "Python", available from python.org, is 
really the 'CPython' runtime and associated libraries.  It implements 
the Python runtime using C.  There is also Jython, which uses a Python 
-> Java compiler on roughly Python 2.2 compatible source.  There is also 
PyPy, which implements the Python runtime in Python with various 
backends (LLVM -> GCC, etc.).  Finally, IronPython is an implementation 
of Python using Microsoft's .NET common language runtime (the CLR), 
which allows for Python to gain access to everything available in .NET .


  - Josiah