In article <[email protected]>, Dennis Lee Bieber <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sun, 04 Jul 2010 20:05:03 -0400, Roy Smith <[email protected]> declaimed > the following in gmane.comp.python.general: > > > In article <[email protected]>, > > Tim Chase <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I've often wondered if changing the name of the language (such as > > > "Adder", "Served", "Dwarf" or "Fawlty" for the Britcom fans in > > > the crowd) would have mitigated some of the more vituperative > > > slurs on what became Py3, designating a shared legacy without the > > > expectation of 100% backwards-compatibility. > > > > Maybe it should have been "Python five, no, THREE!" > > But Adder works on two levels... The BritCom, and the serpentine... Not to mention that the same main characters show up in each version :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
