I hope that if Python were renamed we would not choose yet another name which turns up hundreds of false hits in web engines. Perhaps Homr or Home_r. Or maybe Pythahn. Fredrik Lundh wrote:
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I hope that if Python were renamed we would not choose yet another name which turns up hundreds of false hits in web engines. Perhaps Homr or Home_r. Or maybe Pythahn.
Actually, I'd like to call the next version Throatwobbler Mangrove. But you'd have to pronounce it Raymond Luxyry Yach-t. --Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)
On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 04:01:46PM -0400, Guido van Rossum wrote:
I hope that if Python were renamed we would not choose yet another name which turns up hundreds of false hits in web engines. Perhaps Homr or Home_r. Or maybe Pythahn.
Actually, I'd like to call the next version Throatwobbler Mangrove. But you'd have to pronounce it Raymond Luxyry Yach-t.
Great. I'll take a J-class kitted for open-ocean sailing, please. Do I get a side of bikini babes with that? -- <a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/home.html">Eric S. Raymond</a>
http://www.segfault.org/story.phtml?mode=2&id=391ae457-08fa7b40 "May 11: In a press conference held early this morning, Guido van Rossum ... announced that his most famous project will be undergoing a name change ..." http://www.scriptics.com/company/news/press_release_ajuba.html "May 22: Scriptics Corporation ... today announced that it has changed its name ..." ...
what a dumb name... On Tue, 23 May 2000, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
http://www.segfault.org/story.phtml?mode=2&id=391ae457-08fa7b40 "May 11: In a press conference held early this morning, Guido van Rossum ... announced that his most famous project will be undergoing a name change ..."
http://www.scriptics.com/company/news/press_release_ajuba.html "May 22: Scriptics Corporation ... today announced that it has changed its name ..."
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what a dumb name... On Tue, 23 May 2000, Fredrik Lundh wrote:
http://www.segfault.org/story.phtml?mode=2&id=391ae457-08fa7b40 "May 11: In a press conference held early this morning, Guido van Rossum ... announced that his most famous project will be undergoing a name change ..."
Huh. I dunno what's so dumb about it. But i definitely was tickled by: !STOP PRESS! Microsoft Corporation announced this afternoon that it had aquired rights to use South Park characters in its software. The first such product, formerly known as Visual J++, will now be known as Kenny. !STOP PRESS! :-> Ken klm@digicool.com (No relation.)
Regarding "Ajuba", Greg wrote: what a dumb name... The top 10 reasons why "Ajuba" is a great name for the former Scriptics: 10. An accounting error left waaay too much money in the marketing budget. They felt they had to spend it or risk a budget cut next year. 9. It would make a cool name for a dance. They will now be able to do the "Ajuba" at the company's Friday afternoon beer busts. 8. It's almost palindromic, giving the company's art department all sorts of cool nearly symmetric logo possibilities. 7. It has 7 +/- 2 letters, so when purchasing managers from other companies see it flash by in the background of a baseball or basketball game on TV they'll be able to remember it. 6. No programming languages already exist with that name. 5. It doesn't mean anything bad in any known Indo-European, Asian or African language so they won't risk losing market share (what market share?) in some obscure third-world country because it means "take a flying leap". 4. It's not already registered in .com, .net, .edu or .org. 3. No prospective employee will associate the new company name with the old, so they'll be able to pull in lots of resumes from people who would never have stooped to programming in Tcl for a living. 2. It's more prounounceable than "Tcl" or "Tcl/Tk" by just about anybody who has ever seen English in print. 1. It doesn't suggest anything, so the company is free to redirect its focus any way it wants, including replacing Tcl with Python in future versions of its products. ;-) Skip
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