Python 3 put-downs: What's the point?

[Roy Smith]

In article <mailman.247.1278309447.1673.python-list at python.org>,
 Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 04 Jul 2010 20:05:03 -0400, Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> declaimed
> the following in gmane.comp.python.general:
> 
> > In article <mailman.238.1278287528.1673.python-list at python.org>,
> >  Tim Chase <python.list at tim.thechases.com> wrote:
> > 
> > > I've often wondered if changing the name of the language (such as 
> > > "Adder", "Served", "Dwarf" or "Fawlty" for the Britcom fans in 
> > > the crowd) would have mitigated some of the more vituperative 
> > > slurs on what became Py3, designating a shared legacy without the 
> > > expectation of 100% backwards-compatibility.
> > 
> > Maybe it should have been "Python five, no, THREE!"
> 
> 	But Adder works on two levels... The BritCom, and the serpentine...

Not to mention that the same main characters show up in each version :-)