History of 'self' and why not at least 'my'?

[Steven Majewski]

On Fri, 11 Jan 2002 James_Althoff at i2.com wrote:

>
> Paul Rubin wrote:
> >Oleg Broytmann <phd at phd.pp.ru> writes:
> >>    "Self" was borrowed from Object Pascal family (Modula-3, I think).
> >
> >And also Smalltalk and maybe even Simula.
>
> Smalltalk was the first to use "self".  Simula used/uses "this".
>

As a homage to Intercal, and to promote a more sensitve, less selfish
Python programming style, I propose we change the convention to use
"please" instead of "self", as in:

	def somemethod( please, arg ):
		please.append(arg)
		please.sort()
		please.reverse()

It would sure make my day of reading code more pleasant!

-- Steve