the python name

[Gene Heskett]

On Friday 04 January 2019 19:18:46 Avi Gross wrote:

> Oops. They autocorrected the word piethon below so it makes no sense.
> I meant a pie-eating-marathon or whatever.
>
I did wonder about that, damn the spiel chucker's anyway.

> -----Original Message-----
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> <python-list-bounces+avigross=verizon.net at python.org> On Behalf Of Avi
> Gross
> Sent: Friday, January 4, 2019 6:55 PM
> To: python-list at python.org
> 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 ...
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> <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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Cheers, Gene Heskett
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