On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:30 PM, Anand Balachandran Pillai <abpil...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Apr 1, 2009 at 12:26 PM, Roshan Mathews <rmath...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Since everyone seems to be mailing in today. >> >> http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7760178035196894549 >> >> By one of the people behind Unladen Swallow incidentally. What's with >> that name, btw? Quite the mouthful, hard to swallow, so to speak. > > Unladen => As in unladen transport vehicle, means light on load. > In this context, it means a lightweight object. > > Swallow - I don't think this means the bird Swallow, but the > act of swallowing, which is what a Python does - I think this is > a reference to Python itself. > > So "Unladen Swallow" -> A lightweight Python. > > Quite cryptic I say... they could have opted for something more > straightforward perhaps... > http://www.style.org/unladenswallow/
The bird, plus Monty Python reference. Still quite a mouthful, no reference to Ms. Lovelace. Roshan Mathews _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
