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

Dan Upton upton at virginia.edu
Sat Dec 1 13:21:09 EST 2007


On Dec 1, 2007 12:34 PM, Bjoern Schliessmann
<usenet-mail-0306.20.chr0n0ss at spamgourmet.com> wrote:
> Dotan Cohen wrote:
> > C was named after the B programming language, as it was inspired
> > and meant to replace it. C++ is obviously C+1
>
> Strictly speaking, C++ evalutes to C, but C is incremented
> afterwards.
>

I guess plus-plus-C just doesn't roll off the tongue as well...



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