Well you are being a bit nitpicky as pypy is both the python implementation and the JIT/Rpython/framework bit. What I mean was someone holding very close to the python implementation in almost everything (syntax etc.) but streamlining it/breaking compatibility/giving it a new name ("python3-as-it-should-have-been" perhaps?).
Further, if we are going to be nitpicky, when you use something like that for its intended purpose it's still a fork - I forked Twitter bootstrap for my new project/I used Twitter bootstrap for my new project - so "you wouldn't fork PyPy" is a false statement.
> if we are going to be nitpicky, when you use something
> like that for its intended purpose it's still a fork
No. Fork is definitely not semantically congruent with use. You're only forking Bootstrap if you create a path that diverges from its mainline; don't get confused by GitHub parlance.
Pypy most commonly refers to the python implementation anyway, as can be easily seen by going to the pypy website[1]. Daslch abused the fact that "pypy" points to two things to make a meaningless nitpick. Now you are claiming that I have claimed that fork and use are semantically congruent, where do I claim that? I think you are nitpicking and parsing "it" wrong. In either case a question asking for clarification would be more polite than going on attack.
There seems to be a disease, let's call it Eric Raymond Disease (ERD), on HN in particular[2] of people busting in rudely to declare with supreme confidence on the usage of quite generic words and/or slang. Let's start by tabling the fact that a particular "software definition" of "fork" has not yet reached the OED, or online dictionaries like Merriam-Webster for that matter. Going from that I can't see how you can declare it to only have one definition when you already admit there is a competing one ("GitHub parlance"). The base concept of the word fork is a divergence, a branch, which seems to me to cover any copy+modify move for software so someone copy+modifying bootstrap is forking it, someone copy+modifying the implementation of python called pypy is forking it.
Are you and Daslch really contributing to HN or are you taking a rather banal comment and turned it into a 100% useless thread by bickering over semantics?
Further, if we are going to be nitpicky, when you use something like that for its intended purpose it's still a fork - I forked Twitter bootstrap for my new project/I used Twitter bootstrap for my new project - so "you wouldn't fork PyPy" is a false statement.