the python name

[songbird]

Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> 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?
>>
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> 	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".

  i can only claim to have written one program in
SNOBOL and that was over 30yrs ago...

  being new to Python i'm not concerned about the 
name of it as much as having fun in figuring out
what to do with it.


  songbird