the python name

[Gene Heskett]

On Thursday 03 January 2019 11:53:34 Avi Gross wrote:

> [NOTE: Not a serious post, just a response to a complaint about python
> as a name and computer language names in general.]
>
> On further thought, it seems that a name that reminds some people that
> it is a computer language would be in hexadecimal and start with 0X.
> But that restricts the remainder of the name to numerals plus
> {A,B,C,D,E,F} so something like 0XFACE or 0XDEAF or 0XFADE so how
> about:
>
> 0XFACADE
>
> Clearly the language is just a façade behind whose face are other
> representations we are normally deaf to heading down towards binary.
>
> You can, of course, use the usual password tricks where zero can stand
> for oh, one for el and so on. That extends the words you can make. And
> of course some digits can expand with 2 becoming two or even to/too
> and 4 becoming fore.
>
> PYTHON by this weird measure is horrible as every single letter is
> above F.  AnAC0nDA is much better.
>
> ADA works!
>
> And the cure for JAVA might be DECAF in a CAFÉ.
>
> Better suggestions about what a computer language name should look
> like are welcome. I am thinking a bit outside the box that a solution
> might be in a box. I am thinking of a binary matrix containing 0/1 in
> a 2d-pattern that spells out something  or perhaps has two sections
> side by side where the background letters on each side are all of the
> same digit while the foreground using the other digit spells out
> itself, or perhaps the opposite. This is an ASCII message environment
> so I won't show a sample. Not THAT would be a name, albeit a long one.
>
> Back to seriousness. I do not understand any suggestions that the
> python language will go away any time soon. It will continue to evolve
> and sometimes that evolution may introduce incompatibilities so
> earlier versions may have to stop being supported. In many recent
> polls I keep seeing Python getting an increasing share of programs
> written for all kinds of purposes. Of course, there will be
> competition from other languages and new ones will arise.  I also see
> no reason any one person needs to steer the evolution indefinitely.
> Unrestricted growth is bad but as the world advances, some growth is a
> good idea. Bad analogy, but snakes do tend to shed their skin
> periodically as they grow.
>
Do I miss-remember that there was an anaconda language at sometime in the 
past? Not long after python made its debute? I've not see it mentioned 
in a decade so maybe its died?
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Larry Martell <larry.martell at gmail.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 2, 2019 8:08 PM
> To: Avi Gross <avigross at verizon.net>
> Cc: Python <python-list at python.org>
> Subject: Re: the python name
>
> On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 8:04 PM Avi Gross <avigross at verizon.net> wrote:
> > Challenge: Can we name any computer language whose name really would
> > suggest it was a computer language?
>
> COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language) FORTRAN (Formula
> Translation) PL/1 (Programming Language 1)
> ALGOL (Algorithmic Language)


Cheers, Gene Heskett
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