Mirco Wahab wrote: > Perl, named after Pearl Biggar (Larry Wall’s fiancée),
His wife was Gloria since at least 1979, perl was published in 1987. This seems to be an insider joke (he wanted to call the language "Gloria" first, then "pearl", then "perl"). > set a high standard for naming techniques. So we should rename Python into Cottonmouth to get more attention. Ralf -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
