do...until wisdom found...

[Ken Peek]

heh heh-- maybe "Medusa"?

"Alex Martelli" <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>     [snip]
> > while(1):
>
> Note that these parentheses are totally redundant.
>
> > Some people have suggested that "loop:" is a much better keyword than
> "do:".
> > Now I am wondering if they are right-- maybe so.  I will have to think
> about
> > that some more-- maybe "loop:" IS more readable (by a programming newbie)
> than
> > "do:"...   hmmm....
>
> It's not an issue of "readable" -- any short English word is readable,
> but does it suggest what's going on when one does read it?  "DO" is just
> about the least informative verb in the English language ("BE" is often
> DIS-informative, cfr Korzybski, but that's another issue).  "LOOP" is
> very clear and informative.  What's that gotta do with newbieness?!
>
>
> > Can anybody think of a good name for a "Python-like" new language for
> small
> > embedded processors?
> > Let's see-- "tinyPython"?  nope-- has "Python" in it-- might make Guido
> mad.
>
> It would be silly to add the adjective "tiny" for a language which
> aims to be fatter (e.g. by adding multiple redundant loop forms).
>
> > Hmmm, maybe "Dragon"?  Probably used by someone else?  Hmmm... maybe ???
>
> http://www.thesaurus.com/roget/IV/513.html:
> """
> [Nouns] oracle; prophet, seer, soothsayer, augur, fortune teller, witch,
> geomancer,
> aruspex; aruspice, haruspice; haruspex; Sibyl; Python, Pythoness; Pythia;
> Pythian
> oracle, Delphian oracle; Monitor, Sphinx, Tiresias, Cassandra, Sibylline
> leaves;
> Zadkiel, Old Moore; sorcerer [more]; interpreter [more].
> """
>
> My favourite suggestions out of this list are Soothsayer, Haruspice
> and Zadkiel. "Prognosticator" is another similar suggestion.
>
> If you prefer the reptilian fold rather than the prophethical one,
> suitably obscure names could be Woma, Chondro, Liasis, Dumeril,
> Chandoia, Charina, Corallus, Epicrates, Lichanura, Tropidophis
> (I'm not 100% sure of the spellings -- checking is advised!).
>
> If you prefer the British TV Comedy fold (which is the one Python
> actually happens to come from), "Fawlty Towers" is one possibility.
> But I'll leave this part to people more familiar than me with
> recent British TV Comedy.  Let's just note that "Mr Bean" should
> not be used here, since it's such a natural for some Jython
> Javabean related framework!
>
>
> Alex
>
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