12 years of Python and only at v2.2

John La Rooy nospampls.jlr at doctor.com
Thu Dec 5 03:07:59 EST 2002


On Wed, 04 Dec 2002 15:39:21 +1300
Greg Ewing <see_reply_address at something.invalid> wrote:

> Manuel M. Garcia wrote:
> 
> > Since they cannot count higher than 2000 in Redmond, MS needs to use
> > letters now, hence XP, XQ, XR etc.
> 
> 
> And since they started so far through the alphabet,
> they've only got another 62 versions before they
> get to ZZ, and then what will they do? Add another
> letter, or switch to triplets of colour-coded
> Elven runes?
> 

Perhaps they'll pick a common word like say "NET" or "C" and add a character that most search engines don't understand like "." or "#"

GNU/WINDOWS perhaps? Just to confuse the masses and probably get "GNU" trademarked too :/

John



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