Python 3.0 or Python 3000?

[Benjamin Niemann]

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

> On Sun, 9 Apr 2006 22:15:15 -0400, "Tim Peters" <tim.peters at gmail.com>
> declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
> 
>> [John Salerno]
>> > Is 'Python 3000' just a code name for version 3.0, or will it really be
>> > called that when it's released?
>> 
>> The smart money is on changing the name to Ecstasy, to leverage
>> marketing publicity from the hallucinogenic club drug of the same
>> name.  "class" will be renamed to "rave", and the license will be
>> changed to prohibit use by people with bipolar disorder.  Either that,
>> or the name will be Python 3.0.
> 
> Or... just to save "3000" as a "time way down the road"... The next
> major version of Python will be: Python PI (and each build will add
> another digit... "3.1, 3.14, 3.141, ...")

That's actually the versioning scheme of TeX, currently being at 3.141592

-- 
Benjamin Niemann
Email: pink at odahoda dot de
WWW: http://pink.odahoda.de/