I thought the paragraph about provability was interesting. Presumably
the author refers to proofs in the spirit of "A Discipline of
Programming" from Djikstra, 1976. Unfortunately, I don't think anyone
has writting much about this since the 70s. I'd be interested to learn
if anyone's tried to wr
On Fri, 07 Apr 2006 11:11:14 +0200, rumours say that Azolex
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>> At-least Pythetic isn't a word (yet).
>>
>
>:))) "now that's quite pythetic !"
Well, "pythetic" could become a synonym to "un-pythonic".
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Peter Hansen wrote:
> Mirco Wahab wrote:
>
>> Hi Ralf
>>
>>> So we should rename Python into Cottonmouth to get more attention.
>>
>>
>> No, always take some word that relates to
>> something more or less 'feminine', its about
>> 96% of young males who sit hours on programming
>> over their belove
Michael Yanowitz wrote:
>
> At-least Pythetic isn't a word (yet).
>
:))) "now that's quite pythetic !"
hmmm, clearly that word could become damaging to python,
so I suggest the best course is to preventively focus the meaning
in a way that prevents the danger, by providing canonical
examples
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Mirco Wahab wrote:
> Hi Ralf
>>So we s
Mirco Wahab wrote:
> Hi Ralf
>>So we should rename Python into Cottonmouth
>>to get more attention.
>
> No, always take some word that relates to
> something more or less 'feminine', its about
> 96% of young males who sit hours on programming
> over their beloved 'languages' ;-)
>
> Pythia? (htt
Hi Ralf
>> Perl, named after Pearl Biggar (Larry Wall’s fiancée),
>
> His wife was Gloria since at least 1979, perl was published
> in 1987. This seems to be an insider joke (he wanted to call
> the language "Gloria" first, then "pearl", then "perl").
Thanks for pointing this out ;-)
This mak
Mirco Wahab wrote:
> Perl, named after Pearl Biggar (Larry Wall’s fiancée),
His wife was Gloria since at least 1979, perl was published
in 1987. This seems to be an insider joke (he wanted to call
the language "Gloria" first, then "pearl", then "perl").
> set a high standard for naming techni
John Salerno wrote:
> There is an article on oreilly.net's OnLamp site called "The World's
> Most Maintainable Programming Language"
> (http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/03/the_worlds_most_maintainable_p.html).
>
>
>
> It's not about a s
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> John Salerno wrote:
> > There is an article on oreilly.net's OnLamp site called "The World's
> > Most Maintainable Programming Language"
> >
(http://www.oreilly
John Salerno wrote:
> There is an article on oreilly.net's OnLamp site called "The World's
> Most Maintainable Programming Language"
> (http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/03/the_worlds_most_maintainable_p.html).
>
>
>
> It's not about a s
John Salerno wrote:
> There is an article on oreilly.net's OnLamp site called "The World's
> Most Maintainable Programming Language"
> (http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/03/the_worlds_most_maintainable_p.html).
There is one really interessting (imho) point
in
There is an article on oreilly.net's OnLamp site called "The World's
Most Maintainable Programming Language"
(http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/03/the_worlds_most_maintainable_p.html).
It's not about a specific language, but about the qualities that would
m
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