"Python" is not a good name, should rename to "Athon"
Tim Chase
python.list at tim.thechases.com
Sat Dec 1 07:33:54 EST 2007
> I agree that Python is not a good name for a programming language, but
> I'm afraid we're stuck with it.
Well, the language was going to be called "One of the cross beams
has gone out askew on the treadle" but that was a little unwieldy
and hard to understand when mumbled in a hury. Searching for the
runtime "ootcbhgoaott" returns zero hits on Google. That would
have guaranteed that the only hits that came back related to the
language. However typing things like
sh$ ootcbhgoaott myprog.ootcbhgoaott
became too cumbersome. So they decided on Python instead.
Besides...nobody expected a kind of Spanish Inquisition...
Just-making-stuff-up'ly yers,
-tkc
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