Seeking Minimal Python Project Name (was: [pypy-dev] Re: [ann]MinimalPython project)

[Skip Montanaro]

    >> I immediately thought of the image of a snake biting its tail -- an
    >> ancient symbol of the cycle of life, recursion, etc.  The name for
    >> this symbol appears to be variously:
    >> 
    >> Uroboros
    >> Ourobouros
    >> Ourobourus
    >> 
    >> Not sure which spelling is "canonical".  Not so easy to pronounce
    >> though.

    Erik> I've seen so many spelling variations that I would think that in
    Erik> itself would disqualify it as a good choice of names.  

Not to mention which there is an open source project in the X space called
Oroborus.  There is a Mac OS X version also called OroborOSX:

    http://oroborosx.sf.net/

whose icon is a snake biting its tail wrapped around the "X".

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