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Subject: Re: Python 3.0 breakage
From: James Stroud jstroud {- at -} MBI {- dot -} UCLA {- dot -} EDU
Date: 2008-02-02

On Feb 1, 2008, at 5:40 PM, Gerard DVD Kleywegt wrote:
>> Python 3.0 should have just been named something like "Anaconda" or
>> "Boa" so
>
> Actually (and etymologically), Python is an eponym, named after
> Monty. Hence, any spin-off should be called Basil or Brian or, a
> trifle presumptuously perchance, Holy Grail or Meaning of Life.
>
> --Bruce
> Professor of Hegelian Philosophy (and in charge of the sheep dip)
> University of Woolamaloo
> Australia
> *********************


Considering Python 3.0 is supposed to be an *improvement* over
previous Pythons, I think a more appropriate name would be "Benny
Hill" or "Chris Rock".

James

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