> PyPy dates to 2007

Not to mention that the PyPy name was established long before the initial release too. It was in development at least since 2003, under that name.

IIRC there was a PyPy talk at EuroPython 2003.

The first commit to the current repo is dated Feb 24, 2003, and the commit message is:

    Move the pypy trunk into its own top level directory so the path names
    stay constant.

...indicating there were previous history that got lost in the migration to hg or git.

In the next episode of Complaining About Names; Why did those silly South Americans give their forest the same name as Bezos' company? :-)