Op Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:20:52 +1300, schreef greg:
If you want a really appropriate name for a programming language, I'd
suggest Babbage. (not for Python, though!)
Konrad Zuse wrote the first high-level programming language, so I think
his name would be a better candidate...
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Op Mon, 03 Dec 2007 14:20:52 +1300, schreef greg:
If you want a really appropriate name for a
programming language, I'd
suggest Babbage. (not for Python, though!)
Konrad Zuse wrote the first high-level programming
language, so I think
his
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Adrian Cherry [EMAIL PROTECTED] (AC) wrote:
AC For that matter C# is no better, I thought that # was
pronounced AC hash, I still refer to C# as C-hash.
Are you musically illiterate?
Yup! The limits of my musically ability
Piet van Oostrum wrote:
Adrian Cherry [EMAIL PROTECTED] (AC) wrote:
AC For that matter C# is no better, I thought that # was pronounced
AC hash, I still refer to C# as C-hash.
Are you musically illiterate?
Note that the notation for the note (!) isn't universal. French speakers for
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Adrian Cherry [EMAIL PROTECTED] (AC) wrote:
AC For that matter C# is no better, I thought that # was
pronounced AC hash, I still refer to C# as C-hash.
Are you musically
Boris Borcic wrote:
Piet van Oostrum wrote:
Adrian Cherry [EMAIL PROTECTED] (AC) wrote:
AC For that matter C# is no better, I thought that # was pronounced
AC hash, I still refer to C# as C-hash.
Are you musically illiterate?
Note that the notation for the note (!) isn't universal.
Boris Borcic a écrit :
Piet van Oostrum wrote:
Adrian Cherry [EMAIL PROTECTED] (AC) wrote:
AC For that matter C# is no better, I thought that # was pronounced
AC hash, I still refer to C# as C-hash.
Are you musically illiterate?
Note that the notation for the note (!) isn't
Monty Python pioneered (or at least pioneered the organized televising
of) a form of humor where there is no punchline or reason something is
funny, it just is (or isn't). I find about half of it very funny, and
the rest very unfunny. I used to find it more hilarious than I do
now. It's an
Terry Reedy wrote:
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| Python name is not funny for me. Even the Monty Python, because its
hard
| to translate their jokes, and in my country they are not so popular.
The jokes translate just fine in my country, but
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En Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:49:36 -0300, Dennis Lee Bieber
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How about the cognate: Kulkukan?
You meant Kukulkan. If you got it wrong from Apocalypto (Mel Gibson),
well, it's just one of many errors in the film...
Either way its
Dennis Lee Bieber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Euler? (most non-tech types would probably think that's a reference
to someone who squirts lubricants into the workings of a steam engine)
You have just destroyed a long held image in my mind with this
horrible homophone - I used to conjure up images
Russ P. wrote:
If I had invented Python, I would have called it Newton or Euler,
arguably the greatest scientist and mathematician ever, respectively.
This makes your taste on the matter dubious.
Such choice of a name implies either a claim to the fame of the Person that's
devoid of
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Speaking of stupid names, what does C++ mean? I think it's
the grade you get when you just barely missed a B--. But I
can't deny that it *is* good for searching.
For that matter C# is no better, I thought that # was
On 04/12/2007, Hendrik van Rooyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dotan Cohen dotanail.com wrote:
Newton was the bridge between science and superstition. Without him,
we would not have science. For that he is notable. He is both magician
and scientist. It was Newton's belief in the occult
Adrian Cherry [EMAIL PROTECTED] (AC) wrote:
AC For that matter C# is no better, I thought that # was pronounced
AC hash, I still refer to C# as C-hash.
Are you musically illiterate?
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On Dec 4, 2007 10:02 AM, George Sakkis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Dec 3, 12:50 pm, Russ P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I know this because I've been through it myself. When I tell people
that I use Python, I often qualify it by pointing out that it is used
extensively at Google. In other
Piet van Oostrum wrote:
Adrian Cherry [EMAIL PROTECTED] (AC) wrote:
For that matter C# is no better, I thought that # was
pronounced hash, I still refer to C# as C-hash.
Are you musically illiterate?
I wonder what Cb (C-flat) would be. Ada? :)
Regards,
Björn
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Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
I wouldn't be that harsh... Though I've never heard # as hash...
Python programmer and never heard of the hashbang? :)
Also see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Number_sign
Regards,
Björn
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Russ P. wrote:
Speaking of stupid names, what does C++ mean?
According to Special Relativity, C++ is a contradiction in terms :)
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On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 13:40:10 -0800 (PST), Russ P.
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On Dec 1, 12:47 pm, J. Clifford Dyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 2007-12-01 at 12:10 -0800, Russ P. wrote:
On Dec 1, 2:10 am, Bjoern Schliessmann usenet-
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Russ P. wrote:
I agree that
On Dec 4, 11:36 am, MarkE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ithon
Pie - Fun
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Dennis Lee Bieber írta:
Changing the name of the language, at this stage, means giving up
over ten years of history and rebuilding name recognition from
scratch... Along with having to rename Jython, IronPython, CherryPy,
probably Boa Constructor, the pysqlite DB adapter, numpy, scipy,
On Dec 4, 11:53 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Dec 4, 11:36 am, MarkE [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ithon
Pie - Fun
Pie-a-thon?
http://montypython.tribe.net/thread/fd519910-25e3-4102-b898-8815d6ece32a
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kirstywombat/1862165664/
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On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:31:55 +0100, Zara wrote:
On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 16:51:35 +0200, Dotan Cohen
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On 30/11/2007, Gerardo Herzig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You will be eaten by the Snake-Ra god tonight!
Wasn't Ra the Sun god?
He meant quetzatcoatl. We could rename the
Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch wrote:
On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:31:55 +0100, Zara wrote:
He meant quetzatcoatl. We could rename the language.
That name is already taken in the programming language domain.
There's a Tiny C compiler for 6510 based targets:
Uh, why don't take one of his aliases?
On Dec 3, 12:50 pm, Russ P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I know this because I've been through it myself. When I tell people
that I use Python, I often qualify it by pointing out that it is used
extensively at Google. In other words, I'm banking on the reputation
of Google to offset the goofiness
On 4 Dec 2007 13:40:47 GMT, Marc 'BlackJack' Rintsch
declaimed the following in comp.lang.python:
On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 08:31:55 +0100, Zara wrote:
He meant quetzatcoatl. We could rename the language.
That name is already taken in the programming
En Tue, 04 Dec 2007 14:49:36 -0300, Dennis Lee Bieber
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How about the cognate: Kulkukan?
You meant Kukulkan. If you got it wrong from Apocalypto (Mel Gibson),
well, it's just one of many errors in the film...
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On Dec 2, 4:47 am, Steven D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cybersource.com.au wrote:
On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 23:55:32 -0800, Russ P. wrote:
I neither know nor care much about Newton's personality and social
graces, but I can assure you that he was more than a technician (no
offense to technicians).
On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 02:12:17 -0800, MonkeeSage wrote:
Being fair, the bulk of Liebniz' writings have also been rejected by
those in related fields. Most modern metaphysicians hold a view closer
to Boston Personalism or at least post-Kantian Personalism (a la Buber),
than monadic unity and
On Dec 3, 7:23 am, Steven D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cybersource.com.au wrote:
On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 02:12:17 -0800, MonkeeSage wrote:
Being fair, the bulk of Liebniz' writings have also been rejected by
those in related fields. Most modern metaphysicians hold a view closer
to Boston
On Dec 3, 5:23 am, Steven D'Aprano
I'm not suggesting that Leibniz was any more of a scientist than Newton
was, nor am I suggesting that Newton's achievements should be *rejected*
(er, except for those pesky Quantum Mechanics and Relativity things...).
I'm just saying that we should
On 2007-12-03, Russ P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Dec 3, 5:23 am, Steven D'Aprano
I'm not suggesting that Leibniz was any more of a scientist
than Newton was, nor am I suggesting that Newton's
achievements should be *rejected* (er, except for those pesky
Quantum Mechanics and Relativity
On Dec 3, 2007 4:40 PM, Russ P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
As I said before, a name is
just a name. It might as well be called cockroach as far as I am
concerned.
Unluckily the Beatles was already taken :-)
francesco
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The only reason to change the name would be because of some serious
bad PR that came onto Python, thus causing its branding name to be
catagorized as something bad.
However this is not the case, presently, and the brand name is well
established and accepted. There is no reason to change its name
On Dec 3, 8:22 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The only reason to change the name would be because of some serious
bad PR that came onto Python, thus causing its branding name to be
catagorized as something bad.
However this is not the case, presently, and the brand name is well
established and
Russ P. wrote:
On Dec 3, 8:22 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The only reason to change the name would be because of some serious
bad PR that came onto Python, thus causing its branding name to be
catagorized as something bad.
However this is not the case, presently, and the brand name is
Russ P. írta:
Python is a funny name -- in both senses of the word. No? Then
why did a comedy team adopt it?
Python name is not funny for me. Even the Monty Python, because its hard
to translate their jokes, and in my country they are not so popular.
Just a few ppl knows them.
Newton is a well
Python name is not funny for me. Even the Monty Python, because its hard
to translate their jokes, and in my country they are not so popular.
Just a few ppl knows them.
I've heard it helps to be stoned out of your mind (i.e., under the
influence of illegal drugs), but I don't necessarily
Russ P. írta:
Python name is not funny for me. Even the Monty Python, because its hard
to translate their jokes, and in my country they are not so popular.
Just a few ppl knows them.
I've heard it helps to be stoned out of your mind (i.e., under the
influence of illegal drugs), but I don't
Tóth Csaba wrote:
back from jokes, im _really_ interested what is core developers, mainly
Guido's opinion about the name change.
I'm pretty sure it's, Not a chance.
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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own
On Dec 3, 2007, at 2:04 PM, Tóth Csaba wrote:
Russ P. írta:
Python name is not funny for me. Even the Monty Python, because
its hard
to translate their jokes, and in my country they are not so popular.
Just a few ppl knows them.
I've heard it helps to be stoned out of your mind (i.e.,
On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:11:19 +, Neil Cerutti wrote:
To paraphrase Bertrand Russell, Newton was too successful.
Over-veneration of Newton was eventually an impediment to progress--this
was not, of course, his fault.
Given that the veneration of Newton was very much a product of Newton's
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit :
Python is a good programming language, but Python is not a good
name.
First, python also means snake, Monty Python. If we search python in
google, emule, many results are not programming resource. If we search
PHP, all results are programming resource.
On Sun, 02 Dec 2007 13:29:58 -0800, Russ P. wrote:
He might have been a great intellectual but he was no scientist. It's
only by ignoring the vast bulk of his work -- work which Newton himself
considered *far* more important and interesting than his work on
physics and mathematics -- that we
I'm amazed that anyone here answered this obvious troll...
I doubt the original post was a troll, but the statement above clearly
is.
You are entitled to your opinion about the idea of changing the name
of the language, but calling it a troll is just arrogance on display.
Python3000 is
Russ P. a écrit :
I'm amazed that anyone here answered this obvious troll...
I doubt the original post was a troll, but the statement above clearly
is.
Then your trollometer is broken. Got and get yourself a working one.
You are entitled to your opinion about the idea of changing the name
On Dec 3, 1:04 pm, Steven D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cybersource.com.au wrote:
On Mon, 03 Dec 2007 16:11:19 +, Neil Cerutti wrote:
To paraphrase Bertrand Russell, Newton was too successful.
Over-veneration of Newton was eventually an impediment to progress--this
was not, of course, his
On Dec 3, 2007 4:34 PM, Russ P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm amazed that anyone here answered this obvious troll...
I doubt the original post was a troll, but the statement above clearly
is.
You are entitled to your opinion about the idea of changing the name
of the language, but calling
On Dec 3, 1:47 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bullshit. Nowadays, anyone serious (since you seem to worry quite a lot
about being serious) about IT knows what Python is and who uses it.
Heck, even MSVS now has support for Python and there's an official CLR
port of it. Can't
On 2007-12-03, Bruno Desthuilliers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit :
Second, python also means snake, snake is not a good thing in
western culture. Many people dislike any things relevant to
snake. We must have high regard for the custom.
Now, python3000 is coming. It's
On Dec 3, 2:12 pm, Chris Mellon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Dec 3, 2007 4:02 PM, Russ P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Dec 3, 1:47 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bullshit. Nowadays, anyone serious (since you seem to worry quite a lot
about being serious) about IT knows
On 2007-12-03, Michael Terry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
!!!
Folks admire Newton for some of his breathtaking insights, not
because of his methods. The scientific method is a tool. The
results are far more important than the tool.
Right. The biggest weakness in the scientific method is that it
On Dec 3, 1:58 pm, Dan Upton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...and thus, maybe the joke is on you? Just to play devil's advocate...
Yes, the joke *is* on me -- every time I have to explain to someone
why I am using this funny-sounding language. That's the point.
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On Dec 3, 2007 4:02 PM, Russ P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Dec 3, 1:47 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bullshit. Nowadays, anyone serious (since you seem to worry quite a lot
about being serious) about IT knows what Python is and who uses it.
Heck, even MSVS now has
!!!
Folks admire Newton for some of his breathtaking insights, not because
of his methods. The scientific method is a tool. The results are far
more important than the tool.
Also, it's not a game. His wacky ideas don't cancel out his brilliant ones.
If you want to say that he technically wasn't
Tóth Csaba [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message
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| Python name is not funny for me. Even the Monty Python, because its
hard
| to translate their jokes, and in my country they are not so popular.
| Just a few ppl knows them.
|| back from jokes, im _really_ interested
Russ P. schrieb:
On Dec 3, 1:58 pm, Dan Upton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...and thus, maybe the joke is on you? Just to play devil's advocate...
Yes, the joke *is* on me -- every time I have to explain to someone
why I am using this funny-sounding language. That's the point.
Yeah, but
Michael Terry wrote:
Folks admire Newton for some of his breathtaking insights, not because
of his methods. The scientific method is a tool.
As was Newton, according to many of his contemporaries.
The results are far more important than the tool.
Yep.
Jim
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On Dec 3, 3:09 pm, Chris Mellon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
People who claim that everyone would agree with them if they'd only
open their minds or think out of the box are worth more than a few
Never said anything like it. It's a red herring that you either
imagined or made up.
points on the
On Dec 3, 2007 4:26 PM, Russ P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Dec 3, 2:12 pm, Chris Mellon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Dec 3, 2007 4:02 PM, Russ P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Dec 3, 1:47 pm, Bruno Desthuilliers
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bullshit. Nowadays, anyone serious (since you
On Dec 3, 2:40 pm, Terry Reedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Until the OP posted his lastest 'why', I assumed this proposal was an April
Fools' post that he just could not wait to post. In fact, given that the
effective cost would be in the $millions, I an still not sure he is sanely
serious.
I
On Dec 3, 5:39 pm, Russ P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Dec 3, 2:40 pm, Terry Reedy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Until the OP posted his lastest 'why', I assumed this proposal was an April
Fools' post that he just could not wait to post. In fact, given that the
effective cost would be in the
Dotan Cohen dotanail.com wrote:
Newton was the bridge between science and superstition. Without him,
we would not have science. For that he is notable. He is both magician
and scientist. It was Newton's belief in the occult that led to his
discovery of gravity: the fact that distant
On Sat, 1 Dec 2007 16:51:35 +0200, Dotan Cohen
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 30/11/2007, Gerardo Herzig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You will be eaten by the Snake-Ra god tonight!
Wasn't Ra the Sun god?
He meant quetzatcoatl. We could rename the language. Now try qith
Quetzatcoatl and its
On Dec 1, 11:34 pm, Hendrik van Rooyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Russ P. Ru...gmail.com wrote:
I am surprised to see that Newton is not taken. I urge
Guido to take it while it is still available. Sir Isaac
certainly deserves the honor.
Does he? Are you aware of how he treated Hooke?
He
On 01/12/2007, Russ P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
So what dou you think about D language? :) Or F or F#?
I think that one-letter names are even worse for languages than they
are for variables.
And they are impossible to google.
Update: well, they were when _I_ needed to... I just tried, and
On 02/12/2007, Hendrik van Rooyen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Russ P. Ru...gmail.com wrote:
I am surprised to see that Newton is not taken. I urge
Guido to take it while it is still available. Sir Isaac
certainly deserves the honor.
Does he? Are you aware of how he treated Hooke?
He was
On 02/12/2007, Russ P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I neither know nor care much about Newton's personality and social
graces, but I can assure you that he was more than a technician (no
offense to technicians).
If you just read the Wikipedia preamble about him you will realize
that he is
Russ P. wrote:
Python is an acceptable name, but Newton1 (or Newton3) would be
a great name.
Nah, I like Monty and Snakes. Newton already has his name as unit
for kg*m/s^2. :)
Regards,
Björn
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On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 23:55:32 -0800, Russ P. wrote:
I neither know nor care much about Newton's personality and social
graces, but I can assure you that he was more than a technician (no
offense to technicians).
If you just read the Wikipedia preamble about him you will realize that
he is
On Dec 1, 9:51 am, Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 30/11/2007, Gerardo Herzig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You will be eaten by the Snake-Ra god tonight!
Wasn't Ra the Sun god?
Dotan Cohen
http://what-is-what.comhttp://gibberish.co.il
On 02/12/2007, Steven D'Aprano [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 01 Dec 2007 23:55:32 -0800, Russ P. wrote:
I neither know nor care much about Newton's personality and social
graces, but I can assure you that he was more than a technician (no
offense to technicians).
If you just read
He might have been a great intellectual but he was no scientist. It's
only by ignoring the vast bulk of his work -- work which Newton himself
considered *far* more important and interesting than his work on physics
and mathematics -- that we can even *pretend* he was a scientist.
The fact
Russ P. wrote:
I am surprised to see that Newton is not taken.
Not for a language, but there is a physics simulation
library called Newton -- which is a more appropriate
use of the name, I think. To me, he's more associated
with physics than mathematics.
If you want a really appropriate name
At one stage, Monty Python's Flying Circus was going to be called
Owl Stretching Time.
If that had eventuated, then presumably we would all be disussing the Owl
programming language on comp.lang.owl
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Russ P. wrote:
I agree that Python is not a good name for a programming language,
Why not?
BTW, is Windows a great name for an operating system?
If I had invented Python, I would have called it Newton or Euler,
arguably the greatest scientist and mathematician ever,
respectively. Then
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New name Pytn may be better, do you think so ?
No. How would you pronounce it? Pai-tn?
Why don't you create a fork where the only difference is the name?
Regards,
Björn
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
New name Pytn may be better, do you think so ?
No. How would you pronounce it? Pai-tn?
Why don't you create a fork where the only difference is the name?
Regards,
Björn
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In article [EMAIL PROTECTED],
greg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Not necessarily. A python is a sleek and powerful
creature, which are good associations for a programming
language. The word also hints at a bit of danger and
excitement. On the whole, I think it's a good name.
I remember reading
I agree that Python is not a good name for a programming language, but
I'm afraid we're stuck with it.
Well, the language was going to be called One of the cross beams
has gone out askew on the treadle but that was a little unwieldy
and hard to understand when mumbled in a hury. Searching for
On 30/11/2007, Gerardo Herzig [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You will be eaten by the Snake-Ra god tonight!
Wasn't Ra the Sun god?
Dotan Cohen
http://what-is-what.com
http://gibberish.co.il
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people
On 01/12/2007, Aaron Watters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Nov 30, 9:58 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now, python3000 is coming. It's the best time to rename!
Yes, but Thong would be a better name,
due to the minimalist syntax and the
attraction/repulsion/catatonic revulsion effect it has with
Dotan Cohen írta:
On 01/12/2007, Aaron Watters [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Nov 30, 9:58 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Now, python3000 is coming. It's the best time to rename!
Yes, but Thong would be a better name,
due to the minimalist syntax and the
attraction/repulsion/catatonic revulsion
On 01/12/2007, Russ P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Speaking of stupid names, what does C++ mean? I think it's the grade
you get when you just barely missed a B--. But I can't deny that it
*is* good for searching.
C was named after the B programming language, as it was inspired and
meant to
On 01/12/2007, Tóth Csaba [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
man.. :)) the biggest point in this thread :DD
btw in my country not much, because we write it szex :DD
tsabi
We got you beat: סקס. Try that on a Latin keyboard!
Actually, szex might be a great name, as it implies the meaning
without
Dotan Cohen wrote:
C was named after the B programming language, as it was inspired
and meant to replace it. C++ is obviously C+1
Strictly speaking, C++ evalutes to C, but C is incremented
afterwards.
Regards,
Björn
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Well in the future we will ask the internet god Google to guide us in
making the name!
On Dec 1, 2007 6:02 PM, Dotan Cohen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 01/12/2007, Tóth Csaba [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
man.. :)) the biggest point in this thread :DD
btw in my country not much, because we write
On Dec 1, 2007 12:34 PM, Bjoern Schliessmann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dotan Cohen wrote:
C was named after the B programming language, as it was inspired
and meant to replace it. C++ is obviously C+1
Strictly speaking, C++ evalutes to C, but C is incremented
afterwards.
I guess
On 01/12/2007, Bjoern Schliessmann
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Strictly speaking, C++ evalutes to C, but C is incremented
afterwards.
:) I will remember that!
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A: Because it messes
On 2007-12-01, Bjoern Schliessmann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dotan Cohen wrote:
C was named after the B programming language, as it was inspired
and meant to replace it. C++ is obviously C+1
Strictly speaking, C++ evalutes to C, but C is incremented
afterwards.
Bjarne was only interested in
On Dec 1, 2:10 am, Bjoern Schliessmann usenet-
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Russ P. wrote:
I agree that Python is not a good name for a programming language,
Why not?
Think about proposing its use to someone who has never heard of it
(which I did not too long ago). As the OP pointed out, a
On Sat, 2007-12-01 at 12:10 -0800, Russ P. wrote:
On Dec 1, 2:10 am, Bjoern Schliessmann usenet-
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Russ P. wrote:
I agree that Python is not a good name for a programming language,
Why not?
Think about proposing its use to someone who has never heard of it
On Dec 1, 12:47 pm, J. Clifford Dyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 2007-12-01 at 12:10 -0800, Russ P. wrote:
On Dec 1, 2:10 am, Bjoern Schliessmann usenet-
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Russ P. wrote:
I agree that Python is not a good name for a programming language,
Why not?
J. Clifford Dyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
...Perl is named for a knitting technique, Lisp is named for a
speech impediment...
I can't figure out whether you're being serious or not but, for the
record, those are not where the names of those two languages come
from.
On Dec 2, 8:40 am, Russ P. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
None. None of them are good names by my criteria. But then, a name is
only a name. One of the few names I like is Pascal, because he was a
great mathematician and scientist.
After thinking about it a bit, here are examples of what I would
Newton was a great scientist, and his name is easy to spell and
pronounce.
Should be, but a large proportion of the population pronounce it so
that it rhymes with hootin as in hootin n hollerin :-)
You can count me in that large proportion. 8^)
By the way, after thinking about it a bit,
Russ P. írta:
Newton was a great scientist, and his name is easy to spell and
pronounce.
Should be, but a large proportion of the population pronounce it so
that it rhymes with hootin as in hootin n hollerin :-)
You can count me in that large proportion. 8^)
The 1 also serves to identify
Dotan Cohen wrote:
C++ is obviously C+1, ie, what comes after C.
Although it was a bit rude to choose the destructive form
C++ instead of C+1. Many programmers are quite happy with
C as it is and don't want their language overwritten!
Also there's the rather confusing fact that the value of
the
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