Newsgroups: php.internals Path: news.php.net Xref: news.php.net php.internals:76053 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact internals-help@lists.php.net; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list internals@lists.php.net Received: (qmail 23934 invoked from network); 24 Jul 2014 20:26:09 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO lists.php.net) (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 24 Jul 2014 20:26:09 -0000 Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com header.from=ajf@ajf.me; sender-id=pass Authentication-Results: pb1.pair.com smtp.mail=ajf@ajf.me; spf=pass; sender-id=pass Received-SPF: pass (pb1.pair.com: domain ajf.me designates 192.64.116.216 as permitted sender) X-PHP-List-Original-Sender: ajf@ajf.me X-Host-Fingerprint: 192.64.116.216 imap10-3.ox.privateemail.com Received: from [192.64.116.216] ([192.64.116.216:59958] helo=imap10-3.ox.privateemail.com) by pb1.pair.com (ecelerity 2.1.1.9-wez r(12769M)) with ESMTP id F4/FC-55539-0EB61D35 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:26:08 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mail.privateemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 916692400ED; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:26:10 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at imap10.ox.privateemail.com Received: from mail.privateemail.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (imap10.ox.privateemail.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id oAAIVSkUhflH; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:26:10 -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 7170C2400DD; Thu, 24 Jul 2014 16:26:07 -0400 (EDT) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 7.3 \(1878.6\)) In-Reply-To: <87fdfd1a00dcad32843001d02ee10108@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 2014 21:26:05 +0100 Cc: Sara Golemon , Rowan Collins , PHP internals Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-ID: <1D993D81-0C61-4759-B3A6-8611232F2A07@ajf.me> 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> <87fdfd1a00dcad32843001d02ee10108@mail.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 21:23, Zeev Suraski wrote: > CPython is the name of the implementation, but python.org offers you = to > download Python, not CPython. CPython is an internal name kind of = like > php-src (more or less). In fact, as an average end user, you'd not = know > about CPython at all. Of course. So far as users care, CPython is Python. So far as users = care, Zend PHP/ZPHP/CPHP/php-src/vanilla PHP/whatever is PHP. However, from an internals perspective, we need to be able to = distinguish the two and this becomes particularly important now due to = HHVM and the specification. So, we should decide on a name for the original PHP implementation. -- Andrea Faulds http://ajf.me/