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by nine_k 1281 days ago
Somehow Python people, Java people, Ruby people, JavaScript people managed to produce multiple independent high-quality implementations.
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On top of that, there so many lisp implementations, it's not even funny anymore.
There's a difference between having multiple implementations, even high quality ones, and caring about it. Python is all about the reference implementation, as much as I wish that people cared about pypy and the JS community has always been openly hostile to SpiderMonkey compatibility and only cares about V8 in my experience. And Java is all about different forks of the same jdk, even if several actually independent different ones used to exist.

I will admit to not being familiar enough with Ruby to say anything about that

python has 1.5 implementations pypy is close, but not that close to being a complete implementation.
Jython is pretty complete though, and IronPython is not completely dead.

Micropython can be counted as 0.25 or something :)