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

[Chris Mellon]

On Dec 3, 2007 4:02 PM, Russ P. <Russ.Paielli at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Dec 3, 1:47 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers
> <bdesth.quelquech... at free.quelquepart.fr> wrote:
>
> > Bullshit. Nowadays, anyone serious (since you seem to worry quite a lot
> > about "being serious") about IT knows what Python is and who uses it.
> > Heck, even MSVS now has support for Python and there's an official CLR
> > port of it. Can't get much more "serious" (lol), isn't it ?
>
> Not so. I know professional programmers and computer scientists with
> PhDs who have barely heard of Python and who assumed it was something
> roughly like Basic -- until I explained that it is a "serious"
> language that can be used for serious work. Then there are the
> managers ... who tend to prefer serious names. Sometimes they can see
> past a joke of a name ... and sometimes they can't.
>

The vast majority of languages in use today have "joke" names.
Languages with "serious" names are pretty much limited to the
humorless environments of military and government contracting.

There's not a single competent manager out there who'll dismiss Python
just because it's called Python. The fact that incompetent managers
exists does not change that fact, They won't be able to create good
software no matter what language they choose, so there's no particular
reason to cater to them.

Also, you yourself are starting to emit spikes on the trollmeter, as
does anyone who blathers about how "serious" we need to be in order to
ingrate ourselves with hypothetical gray faced bureaucrats.