Announcing PyCs, a new Python-like language on .Net

[Mark Hahn]

On Fri, 3 Sep 2004 08:11:36 +0200, Alex Martelli wrote:

> Mark Hahn <mark at prothon.org> wrote:
>    ...
>>>> It turns out that I missed a sourceforge project called PyCs so we will be
>>>> changing our name soon.  Our current best guess is Pyxc pronounced Pixie.
>>> 
>>> http://pyxie.sourceforge.net/
>>> 
>>> Best to avoid homonyms too, I think.  Try again.
>> 
>> I see no problem with homonyms, unless it was another computer language.
> 
> I do, because often people speak about technologies in contexts that
> doesn't make it clear at all whether one is speaking about a computer
> language or some other kind of technology.

We are trying to find a new name.  It's not easy.

> I applaud your efforts (differently from many around here who seem to
> sneer at them), even though I'm not going to get involved (no version of
> dotNet's CLR runs on the Mac, I believe, so I'm not very interested in
> anything that requires the CLR).  But I do believe you CAN do much
> better than this in terms of naming.

I think you are wrong.  People are running the CLR on the Mac.  I don't
remember if it is Mono or DotGNU.