Magnus Lycka wrote: > rtilley wrote: > >> >> I think it's the name. Python. Let's change it to something nicer. >> Think about it... if you found a Ruby, you'd pick it up and put it in >> your pocket. If you ran across a Python, you'd run away. > > > I think you have a point, but I also think it's a bit > late to change it after 15 years or so, considering all > books, web sites etc. We're stuck with Python, and can > only do the best of that. Actually, in Swedish, "Jag > mår pyton" i.e. "I feel like python" means "I feel > sick", and "det luktar pyton" i.e. "it smells python", > means "it stinks". That doesn't make Python easier to > sell here... Still to late to change... >
In Finnish "ajaa käärme pyssyyn" ("force a snake into a rifle") means doing something almost impossible. If you have to put a snake into a rifle, try Python - a bite does not kill you. So it works both ways. > I think a good example on the problem with letting > techies like us do naming is that grand successor > of Unix developed by the great minds at Bell Labs. > > First, they name it after a movie which is famous > for being exceptionally bad--Plan 9 (from outer space). > Really grand company there! > > Then, when they make a real product of it, they call > it Inferno, and some part of it gets called Limbo. > "Inferno - the Lamborghini Diablo of operating systems" What is the problem here? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list