the python name

[Avi Gross]

Oops. They autocorrected the word piethon below so it makes no sense. I
meant a pie-eating-marathon or whatever. 

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Sent: Friday, January 4, 2019 6:55 PM
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Subject: RE: the python name

Gene,

It is simple in Python:

if "IV" in "FIVE":
    print("Roman 4 is 5!")

prints:

Roman 4 is 5!

Just a stupid coincidence that the spelling in current English for the
numeral Five happens to have the silly one-less than 5 notation of the Roman
numerals IV. 

Maybe someone with my perverted sense of humor found it amusing to change
the nomenclature so WAT remains the same in WATFOR and in WATFIV but they
did not retain the FOR and make WATFORIV which might be harder to pronounce.

Now if they had named the language pithon or python instead of python, we
might be having marathon sessions evaluating digits of pi or eating dessert.

Time to stop posting before ...

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From: Python-list <python-list-bounces+avigross=verizon.net at python.org> On
Behalf Of Gene Heskett
Sent: Friday, January 4, 2019 4:20 PM
To: python-list at python.org
Subject: Re: the python name

On Friday 04 January 2019 13:22:03 Ian Kelly wrote:

> On Fri, Jan 4, 2019 at 10:59 AM Dennis Lee Bieber
<wlfraed at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 4 Jan 2019 01:12:42 -0500, "Avi Gross"
> > <avigross at verizon.net>
> >
> > declaimed the following:
> > >language, Formula Translator? (I recall using the What For 
> > >version).
> >
> >         WATFOR => WATerloo FORtran
>
> And then there was WATFIV, which stands for WATerloo Fortran IV.
> Because 5 == IV.

Not what I was taught 75 years ago. Thats a brand new definition of fuzzy
logic. :(

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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