"Python" is not a good name, should rename to "Athon"

Neil Cerutti horpner at yahoo.com
Sat Dec 1 15:23:35 EST 2007


On 2007-12-01, Bjoern Schliessmann <usenet-mail-0306.20.chr0n0ss at spamgourmet.com> 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 the side-effect. Anyhow,
Pythonistas know it should've been called "C+=1".

-- 
Neil Cerutti



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