"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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