Douglas Alan wrote: > Ruby didn't start catching on until Ruby on Rails came out. If Python > has a naming problem, it's with the name of Django, rather than > Python. Firstly, Django doesn't have "Python" in the name, so it > doesn't popularize the language behind it, even should Django become > very popular. Secondly, Django just doesn't have the ring of "Ruby on > Rails". They should change the name to "Blood Python" instead. Okay, > well, maybe not. How about "Green Tree Python"? Hmmm, kind of > boring. Well, maybe "Python on the Bullet Train"? Okay, too > derivative. "Maglev Python"? "Python with Panache"? "Python on > Prozac"?
How about Amethyst? As in "amethyst python" - see http://www.stthomasschool.org/Classrooms/ausnz/AmPython.htm Of course, although amethyst was originally considered a "cardinal gem" alongside ruby, it no longer is since huge quantities were discovered in Brazil - at least, that's what is says here: http://www.answers.com/topic/gemstone-1 > I give up. In any case, I'm sure Django was a great musician, but the > product needs a better name to have any chance of displacing Rails. I find the Django name tres cool and am considering changing the names of two Python projects on which I am working to Thelonious and Miles. Tim C -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
