the python name

[Jack Dangler]

Odd that COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language)  and DIBOL (Digital 
Business Oriented Language) follow the paradigm, but SNOBOL went with 
"symBOlic"...

On 1/2/19 7:22 PM, Rich Shepard wrote:
> 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
>