Am 18.10.2013 15:09, schrieb Robert Kern:
On 2013-10-18 05:03, Chris Angelico wrote:
On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Steven D'Aprano
<steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote:
On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 10:16:24 -0700, Roy Smith wrote:
On Thursday, October 17, 2013 11:07:48 AM UTC-4, Chris Angelico
wrote:
Module names should be descriptive, not fancy.
Interesting comment, on a mailing list for a language named after
a
snake, especially by a guy who claims to prefer an language named
after
a fish :-)
It's not named after a snake, but after a British comedy group,
"Monty
Python". And I daresay that Pike is named after a long stick with a
spike
and axe on the end. Just 'cos that would be cooler than naming it
after
the fish.
I don't know which it was named after (could also be a road, eg
turnpike), but the language's logo is the fish.
Our logo is a snake, so that's obviously not a good guide. :-)
--
Robert Kern
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless
enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as
though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco
I quote Guido:
"Apart from being a computer scientist, I'm also a fan of "Monty
Python's Flying Circus" (a BBC comedy series from the seventies, in the
-- unlikely -- case you didn't know). It occurred to me one day that I
needed a name that was short, unique, and slightly mysterious. And I
happened to be reading some scripts from the series at the time... So
then I decided to call my language Python. But Python is not a joke. And
don't you associate it with dangerous reptiles either! (If you need an
icon, use an image of the 16-ton weight from the TV series or of a can
of SPAM :-)"
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