I thought the paragraph about provability was interesting. Presumably
the author refers to proofs in the spirit of A Discipline of
Programming from Djikstra, 1976. Unfortunately, I don't think anyone
has writting much about this since the 70s. I'd be interested to learn
if anyone's tried to
On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 11:11:14 +0200, rumours say that Azolex
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At-least Pythetic isn't a word (yet).
:))) now that's quite pythetic !
Well, pythetic could become a synonym to un-pythonic.
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TZOTZIOY, I speak England very best.
Dear Paul,
please stop
Michael Yanowitz wrote:
At-least Pythetic isn't a word (yet).
:))) now that's quite pythetic !
hmmm, clearly that word could become damaging to python,
so I suggest the best course is to preventively focus the meaning
in a way that prevents the danger, by providing canonical
examples of,
Peter Hansen wrote:
Mirco Wahab wrote:
Hi Ralf
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' ;-)
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
Mirco Wahab wrote:
Hi Ralf
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?
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Mirco Wahab wrote:
Hi Ralf
So we should rename Python
John Salerno wrote:
There is an article on oreilly.net's OnLamp site called The World's
Most Maintainable Programming Language
(http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/03/the_worlds_most_maintainable_p.html).
There is one really interessting (imho) point
in the last part that struck me
John Salerno wrote:
There is an article on oreilly.net's OnLamp site called The World's
Most Maintainable Programming Language
(http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/03/the_worlds_most_maintainable_p.html).
It's not about a specific language, but about the qualities that would
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John Salerno wrote:
There is an article on oreilly.net's OnLamp site called The World's
Most Maintainable Programming Language
(http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/03/the_worlds_most_maintainable_
p.html).
There
John Salerno wrote:
There is an article on oreilly.net's OnLamp site called The World's
Most Maintainable Programming Language
(http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/03/the_worlds_most_maintainable_p.html).
It's not about a specific language, but about the qualities that would
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.
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