the python name

[Avi Gross]

Challenge: Can we name any computer language whose name really would suggest it was a computer language?

Oh, if you say C is named as being the successor to some form of B, then R (as you mentioned) is the successor by some form of backwards reasoning to S as it started as not quite S or at least not as expensive. FWIW, T was already in use as a dialect of Scheme which was a dialect of LISP ...

And I was there when we were naming C++ as a slightly improved and incremented C. Yes, D was considered as well as odd names like Add-One-To-C. Oddly C# was not considered. 😊

So, Ada. First female programmer, at least on paper?

A Programming Language? APL.

The endless list goes on. I looked at one such list below and I thought I had learned quite a few but apparently a small fraction of what was.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages

I think the name is the least important aspect of a computer language.

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On Wed, 2 Jan 2019 19:41:36 +0000, "Schachner, Joseph"
<Joseph.Schachner at Teledyne.com> declaimed the following:


>The name "Python" may not make sense, but what sense does the name Java make, or even C (unless you know that it was the successor to B), or Haskell or Pascal or even BASIC?  Or Caml or Kotlin or Scratch?  Or Oberon or R? Or Smalltalk, or SNOBOL?
>

	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".



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