"Python" is not a good name, should rename to "Athon"

John Machin sjmachin at lexicon.net
Sat Dec 1 17:31:56 EST 2007


On Dec 2, 8:40 am, "Russ P." <Russ.Paie... at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> None. None of them are good names by my criteria. But then, a name is
> only a name. One of the few names I like is Pascal, because he was a
> great mathematician and scientist.
>
> After thinking about it a bit, here are examples of what I would
> consider a good name for a programming language:
>
> Newton#
> Newton*
> Newton+
>
> Newton was a great scientist, and his name is easy to spell and
> pronounce.

Should be, but a large proportion of the population pronounce it so
that it rhymes with "hootin" as in "hootin n hollerin" :-)




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