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

[Robert Kern]

On 2013-10-18 05:03, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Steven D'Aprano
> <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
>> On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 10:16:24 -0700, Roy Smith 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 :-)
>>
>> It's not named after a snake, but after a British comedy group, "Monty
>> Python". And I daresay that Pike is named after a long stick with a spike
>> and axe on the end. Just 'cos that would be cooler than naming it after
>> the fish.
>
> I don't know which it was named after (could also be a road, eg
> turnpike), but the language's logo is the fish.

Our logo is a snake, so that's obviously not a good guide. :-)

-- 
Robert Kern

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  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
  an underlying truth."
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