"CPython"
Avi Gross
avigross at verizon.net
Mon Jun 20 22:52:28 EDT 2022
This leads to the extremely important question of what would an implementation of Python, written completely in C++, be called?
C++Python
CPython++
C+Python+
DPython
SeaPython?
SeeSeaSiPython
I don't even want to think fo what sound a C# Python would make.
OK, my apologies to all. Being an interpreted language, it makes sense for a good part of the interpreter to include parts made in other languages and also add-on libraries in even older languages like FORTRAN. Quite a few languages, including some like R, are also partially based on C in similar ways.
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From: Paulo da Silva <p_d_a_s_i_l_v_a_ns at nonetnoaddress.pt>
To: python-list at python.org
Sent: Mon, Jun 20, 2022 8:53 pm
Subject: Re: "CPython"
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.
I rest my case.
Thank you all.
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