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

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 17 October 2013 17:34:15 Mark Lawrence did opine:

> On 17/10/2013 20:43, Ian Kelly wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> It's just so unfair, poor old CORAL gets left out of this type of list
> every time :(

And I feel the same about ARexx.  An extremely capable language for the 
amiga & the only higher level language I ever wrote a commercial 
application in.

But boy was I disappointed when I moved some ARexx code to linux & tried to 
execute it with Regina.  Never got past the 2nd line because Regina was in 
such a small sandbox it couldn't even ask the system for the correct time.
Rexx/Regina might have had 5% of the functionality that ARexx had.  But 
commode door never gave Bill Hawes a damned dime for his efforts, not even 
any royalties from his book.

Cheers, Gene
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