Retire or reword the namesake of the Language
Guten Tag, I am Jack and I am grateful to see the efficiency of scientific computing in Python. However, What deeply saddens me is that the namesake "Python" has unfortunately been derived from the title of the uncivilised British jester troupe "Monty Python". This is something that deeply infuriates me and is against the morals of my culture. Although humor is an integral aspect of the life of an Untermensch, I believe that Python, A language used as an interface to majority of Scientific computing software should be renamed to something more suitable. I hereby propose that the Language should be renamed to Cobra, after the brilliant military strategist Cobra Commander , who has been history's most efficient and brilliant strategist. I hope that my message is not mistaken for an attempt to humor. I am physically unable to experience the same. Please revert back to the mail with your thoughts and constructive criticism. Yours forever, Jack Daniels
There's already a thing named Cobra. https://github.com/opencobra/cobrapy "Python (mythology)" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(mythology) ... Serpent/Dragon guarding the omphalos. "Ouroboros" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros Monty Python themed Python language things: - The Cheese Shop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese_Shop_sketch https://wiki.python.org/moin/CheeseShop https://pypi.org/ - The Knights Who Say Ni -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_Who_Say_Ni https://github.com/python/the-knights-who-say-ni - Miss Islington https://github.com/python/miss-islington On Sunday, September 16, 2018, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
Anyways, speaking of dragons, here are some ideas for new logos: "Strong Bad Email #58: Dragon" https://youtu.be/90X5NJleYJQ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python On Sunday, September 16, 2018, Wes Turner <wes.turner@gmail.com> wrote:
It's not like the Monty Python (whom the language was named after) would have dared mocking the discourse and manners of all kinds of social groups, let alone have a laugh at the expense of beliefs and ideologies. Regards Antoine. On Mon, 17 Sep 2018 08:25:27 -0400 Calvin Spealman <cspealma@redhat.com> wrote:
Monty Python had the goal of making people laugh, while python-ideas has the goal of improving Python. With those priorities, we can have fun, but not at the expense of potential contributions and contributors. Other people aren't perfect, but sometimes you have to adapt to them for the sake of other goals. It may be easier if you think of it as writing a nasty workaround to an unmaintained or wontfix API, or, back in the 00's, doing anything at all to make a site work on Internet Explorer. On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 8:39 AM Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote:
This proposal unfortunately carries the risk of reminding people of "CORBA", a technology that was once regarded as the highest pinnacle of the development of distributed systems, before it was sidelined by XMLRPC, then SOAP, then Docker containers exchanging Protobuf messages over WebSockets. My two cents (at being gently sarcastic). S. On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 12:14 PM Widom PsychoPath <wofthep@gmail.com> wrote:
-- Stefane Fermigier - http://fermigier.com/ - http://twitter.com/sfermigier - http://linkedin.com/in/sfermigier Founder & CEO, Abilian - Enterprise Social Software - http://www.abilian.com/ Chairman, Free&OSS Group @ Systematic Cluster - http://www.gt-logiciel-libre.org/ Co-Chairman, National Council for Free & Open Source Software (CNLL) - http://cnll.fr/ Founder & Organiser, PyParis & PyData Paris - http://pyparis.org/ & http://pydata.fr/
There's already a thing named Cobra. https://github.com/opencobra/cobrapy "Python (mythology)" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(mythology) ... Serpent/Dragon guarding the omphalos. "Ouroboros" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ouroboros Monty Python themed Python language things: - The Cheese Shop https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese_Shop_sketch https://wiki.python.org/moin/CheeseShop https://pypi.org/ - The Knights Who Say Ni -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_Who_Say_Ni https://github.com/python/the-knights-who-say-ni - Miss Islington https://github.com/python/miss-islington On Sunday, September 16, 2018, Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
Anyways, speaking of dragons, here are some ideas for new logos: "Strong Bad Email #58: Dragon" https://youtu.be/90X5NJleYJQ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Python On Sunday, September 16, 2018, Wes Turner <wes.turner@gmail.com> wrote:
It's not like the Monty Python (whom the language was named after) would have dared mocking the discourse and manners of all kinds of social groups, let alone have a laugh at the expense of beliefs and ideologies. Regards Antoine. On Mon, 17 Sep 2018 08:25:27 -0400 Calvin Spealman <cspealma@redhat.com> wrote:
Monty Python had the goal of making people laugh, while python-ideas has the goal of improving Python. With those priorities, we can have fun, but not at the expense of potential contributions and contributors. Other people aren't perfect, but sometimes you have to adapt to them for the sake of other goals. It may be easier if you think of it as writing a nasty workaround to an unmaintained or wontfix API, or, back in the 00's, doing anything at all to make a site work on Internet Explorer. On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 8:39 AM Antoine Pitrou <solipsis@pitrou.net> wrote:
This proposal unfortunately carries the risk of reminding people of "CORBA", a technology that was once regarded as the highest pinnacle of the development of distributed systems, before it was sidelined by XMLRPC, then SOAP, then Docker containers exchanging Protobuf messages over WebSockets. My two cents (at being gently sarcastic). S. On Sun, Sep 16, 2018 at 12:14 PM Widom PsychoPath <wofthep@gmail.com> wrote:
-- Stefane Fermigier - http://fermigier.com/ - http://twitter.com/sfermigier - http://linkedin.com/in/sfermigier Founder & CEO, Abilian - Enterprise Social Software - http://www.abilian.com/ Chairman, Free&OSS Group @ Systematic Cluster - http://www.gt-logiciel-libre.org/ Co-Chairman, National Council for Free & Open Source Software (CNLL) - http://cnll.fr/ Founder & Organiser, PyParis & PyData Paris - http://pyparis.org/ & http://pydata.fr/
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Wes Turner -
Widom PsychoPath