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

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Am 18.10.2013 15:09, schrieb 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
>
> "I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless 
> enigma
>  that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as
> though it had
>  an underlying truth."
>   -- Umberto Eco

I quote Guido:

"Apart from being a computer scientist, I'm also a fan of "Monty 
Python's Flying Circus" (a BBC comedy series from the seventies, in the 
-- unlikely -- case you didn't know). It occurred to me one day that I 
needed a name that was short, unique, and slightly mysterious. And I 
happened to be reading some scripts from the series at the time... So 
then I decided to call my language Python. But Python is not a joke. And 
don't you associate it with dangerous reptiles either! (If you need an 
icon, use an image of the 16-ton weight from the TV series or of a can 
of SPAM :-)"