[Python-Dev] Names for things

Greg Ewing greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz
Wed, 26 Jul 2000 15:12:54 +1200 (NZST)


bwarsaw@beopen.com (Barry A. Warsaw):

> 35 years and tens of millions of records later, and even "Pink Floyd" seems
> like a brilliant name for a band.

And "Monty Python" is such an obviously good name for a comedy show...
and "Python" for a programming language! Guido obviously used his
time machine to plant the name in our minds a few decades ago to
give us time to get used to the idea.

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