Is the "Be" significant? (Re: The State of Python)

[Chris Herborth]

According to Steve Lamb <morpheus at here.not.there>:
> On Thu, 27 Jul 2000 15:29:15 GMT, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> wrote:
> >If anything, "Be" made a rather confusing choice of name.
> 
>     Well, I think it fits if what I hear about what it stands for is true.
> BeOS - Bleeding edge Operating System.  Considering they designed it from the
> ground up for the latest hardware at the time it fits.  Otherwise, yeah.

The legend is that, before they had a name, someone took a dictionary home
and got too bored after looking through... they ended at the end of A;
someone asked how far they got, "B" was the reply, someone thought that was
a good name, the rest is history...

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