the python name

[Rich Shepard]

On Wed, 2 Jan 2019, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:

> 	Which was a derivative of BCPL (so one could claim a successor of C
> should be named P), ?, mathematician, beginners all-purpose symbolic
> instruction code. R? maybe a subtle implication to be better/in-front-of
> S. SNOBOL is the ugly one, since the SN come from "string", and the BO
> from the middle of "symbolic".

   R is the open source implemention of the S statistical/data analysis
language developed by Chambers at the AT&T Labs. S-Plus is the proprietary,
windows-requiring implementation of S.

Rich