From: Rob Warnock
Subject: Re: Help with macro to list structure properties?
Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 02:07:22 +0000
Message-ID: <nOmdnQZd9uDHdBLfRVn-uA@speakeasy.net>

Jeffrey Cunningham <····················@boeing.com> wrote:
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| In notice when I fire up CMUCL in python that it says:
|     Loaded subsystems:
|         Python 1.1, target Intel x86
|         CLOS 18e (based on PCL September 16 92 PCL (f))
|     * 
| What is Python doing in this?
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    <http://www.cons.org/cmucl/FAQ.html>
    ...
    4. Q: Why does CMUCL say it's called Python 1.1 when it starts up?
	  Isn't that the name of a scripting language?

       A: The CMUCL native code compiler is called Python. This use of the
	  name predates the existence of that other scripting language. 


-Rob

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From: Kalle Olavi Niemitalo
Subject: Python of CMUCL (was: Help with macro to list structure properties?)
Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 07:44:15 +0000
Message-ID: <87br733dtc.fsf@Astalo.kon.iki.fi>

····@rpw3.org (Rob Warnock) writes:

>     <http://www.cons.org/cmucl/FAQ.html>
>     ...
>     4. Q: Why does CMUCL say it's called Python 1.1 when it starts up?
> 	  Isn't that the name of a scripting language?
>
>        A: The CMUCL native code compiler is called Python. This use of the
> 	  name predates the existence of that other scripting language. 

For a while, I wondered whether the compiler is separate enough
to deserve its own name and version number, especially as SBCL
has already dropped :PYTHON from *FEATURES*.  But CVS shows that
C::COMPILER-VERSION has been changed twice: first from "0.0" to
"1.0" on 1991-03-12, and then to "1.1" on 2003-02-05.