Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:76049 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 17099 invoked from network); 24 Jul 2014 20:19:15 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 24 Jul 2014 20:19:15 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=ajf@ajf.me; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=ajf@ajf.me; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain ajf.me designates 192.64.116.207 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: ajf@ajf.me X-Host-Fingerprint: 192.64.116.207 imap2-2.ox.privateemail.com Received: from [192.64.116.207] ([192.64.116.207:57408] helo=imap2-2.ox.privateemail.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id 9C/6B-55539-04A61D35 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:19:14 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 09A8B8C0080; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:19:14 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at imap2.ox.privateemail.com Received: from mail.privateemail.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (imap2.ox.privateemail.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id udN1eVVI__I4; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:19:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from [192.168.0.15] (unknown [90.210.122.167]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id DF6D18C0075; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:19:11 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) In-Reply-To: Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 21:19:09 +0100 Cc: Sara Golemon , Rowan Collins , PHP internals Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: References: <53CFB2CD.5050703@hoa-project.net> <53D0062A.20905@gmail.com> <3D49DA70-E726-439B-94E7-F8888358C04D@benramsey.com> <53D0FC76.3080604@hoa-project.net> <53D10CE8.8090500@gmail.com> <4212D04D-0241-4887-A9DF-180958A31926@ajf.me> <53D11BBF.7040306@gmail.com> <53D15E99.4060803@gmail.com> To: Zeev Suraski X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1878.6) Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] PHP Language Specification From: ajf@ajf.me (Andrea Faulds) On 24 Jul 2014, at 21:12, Zeev Suraski wrote: > Other opensource languages that have multiple implementations, still = have > the 'official' release with the original name, while other = implementations > have separate, different names that implement 'the XYZ language' or = 'the > ABC spec'. >=20 > E.g., there's Jython, Cython, PyPy - but the original Python is still > Python. Python might be a poor example. The =93original Python=94 is called = CPython. In technical discussions it would be very useful to have a proper name = for the vanilla implementation, even though most people are going to = call it PHP anyway. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/