Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it?
Robert Kern
robert.kern at gmail.com
Fri Oct 18 10:09:38 EDT 2013
On 2013-10-18 05:03, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 18, 2013 at 2:14 PM, Steven D'Aprano
> <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:
>> On Thu, 17 Oct 2013 10:16:24 -0700, Roy Smith wrote:
>>
>>> On Thursday, October 17, 2013 11:07:48 AM UTC-4, Chris Angelico wrote:
>>>> Module names should be descriptive, not fancy.
>>>
>>> Interesting comment, on a mailing list for a language named after a
>>> snake, especially by a guy who claims to prefer an language named after
>>> a fish :-)
>>
>> It's not named after a snake, but after a British comedy group, "Monty
>> Python". And I daresay that Pike is named after a long stick with a spike
>> and axe on the end. Just 'cos that would be cooler than naming it after
>> the fish.
>
> I don't know which it was named after (could also be a road, eg
> turnpike), but the language's logo is the fish.
Our logo is a snake, so that's obviously not a good guide. :-)
--
Robert Kern
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma
that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had
an underlying truth."
-- Umberto Eco
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