Mark Dickinson <dicki...@gmail.com> added the comment:
If we *really* wanted to bikeshed on the name, back in 1991 Kahan wrote: > Perhaps the last problem is the hardest: choosing the program's name. Ideally > it should need no explanation, but a limitation upon its length may preclude > that. Although "CBRT" has seen use, I prefer "QBRT" in order that the prefix > "C" may be reserved for use with complex-valued functions. Source: https://csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~pbarfuss/qbrt.pdf But that was 30 years ago, and I think the "CBRT"-shaped ship has long since sailed. ---------- _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <https://bugs.python.org/issue44357> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
