Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote: > Perhaps my recall of history is lacking, but I'd say PyPy is too easily > confused with PyPI; wasn't PyPI around first, at least as a moniker?
That may be so. But I like PyPy as a name for what it is better than PyPI, so if one of them had to go, I wouldn't want to lose PyPy. How do you pronounce PyPI, btw? Is it "pie-pie" or "pie-pee-eye"? (And don't tell me it's actually pronounced "pippy" -- acronyms with non-obvious pronunciations are a minor peeve of mine. People are going to pronounce it the way they think it looks, however much you try to educate them otherwise, so it would be better to spell it the way you want it pronounced in the first place.) Another thing is that PyPI, and any other name starting with Py, looks like the name of a Python package. I thought it *was* some kind of package the first few times I saw the acronym used. And why is it PyPI and not PPI? It seems kind of arbitrary. Somehow, Cheese Shop works for me, on a variety of levels. Not only does it suggest a place to go to get things, it suggests an *interesting* place, where I might find a variety of tasty morsels on display. It invites me to go and browse. And if I didn't know what it was, I'd be intrigued enough to go there and find out. Also, in this acronym-laden age, it has the advantage of *not* being an acronym! There are far too many TLAs and ETLAs being bandied around these days. We need to rediscover the sublime art of using actual words to talk about things. HTH. YMMV. HAND. YT, GCE _______________________________________________ Python-3000 mailing list Python-3000@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-3000 Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-3000/archive%40mail-archive.com
