Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it?

[Ian Kelly]

On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Roy Smith <roy at panix.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, October 17, 2013 11:07:48 AM UTC-4, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> Module names should be  descriptive, not fancy.
>
> Interesting comment, on a mailing list for a language named after a snake, especially by a guy who claims to prefer an language named after a fish :-)

Well, he did say "module names", not "language names".  Few language
names are descriptive, and those that are tend to be acronyms: BASIC,
LISP, COBOL, PHP, APL.  Note that while that last one is descriptive,
it does very little to distinguish itself from any other programming
language.