On Feb 1, 2008, at 5:40 PM, Gerard DVD Kleywegt wrote:
Python 3.0 should have just been named something like "Anaconda" or "Boa" so

Actually (and etymologically), Python is an eponym, named after Monty. Hence, any spin-off should be called Basil or Brian or, a trifle presumptuously perchance, Holy Grail or Meaning of Life.

--Bruce
 Professor of Hegelian Philosophy (and in charge of the sheep dip)
 University of Woolamaloo
 Australia
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Considering Python 3.0 is supposed to be an *improvement* over previous Pythons, I think a more appropriate name would be "Benny Hill" or "Chris Rock".

James

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James Stroud
UCLA-DOE Institute for Genomics and Proteomics
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