[Pythonmac-SIG] MacPython and OSXPython or XPython

Steven Burr sburr@home.com
Sat, 20 Oct 2001 10:20:38 -0700


Can't put my finger on it, but there's something about the 'XP' in 
'XPython" that I just don't like.

On Saturday, October 20, 2001, at 05:15 AM, Kari-Hans Kommonen wrote:

> how about OSXPython or XPython?
>
> At 11:22 +0200 17.10.2001, Jack Jansen wrote:
>> BTW: since the last couple of months I'm consistently saying 
>> "MacPython" when
>> I refer to MacPython. However, I don't have a fixed term yet for "the 
>> other
>> Python on OSX", sometimes I say unix-Python, sometimes 
>> command-line-Python,
>> sometimes something else altogether. I don't like "Python", because it 
>> can
>> mean both and can lead to confusion (as shown here). Any suggestions 
>> for a
>> term we could all start using when the distinction is important?
>
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