Hi Ralf >> 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").
Thanks for pointing this out ;-) This makes perfectly sense - then. I mean, its 'chromatic' who wrote about that, so at least something has to hide in each of the jokes ;-) >> set a high standard for naming techniques. > > So we should rename Python into Cottonmouth > to get more attention. No, always take some word that relates to something more or less 'feminine', its about 96% of young males who sit hours on programming over their beloved 'languages' ;-) Pythia? (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythia) Regards, M. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list