On Dec 4, 2007 10:02 AM, George Sakkis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Dec 3, 12:50 pm, "Russ P." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I know this because I've been through it myself. When I tell people > > that I use Python, I often qualify it by pointing out that it is used > > extensively at Google. In other words, I'm banking on the reputation > > of Google to offset the goofiness of the "Python" name. > > > > Come to think of it, maybe it should be called "Googlang" or "Googon"? > > I see, so Python has to somehow offset the "goofiness" of its name > while Google can rest on its reputation. Never occured to you that the > goofiness of the name "Google" is at least an order of magnitude > greater than Python.
And it never occurred to him that Guido could have named the programming language Google, and later, the search-engine guys could have founded a company named Python. He'd be defending his choice of programming in the Google language by pointing to the reputation of the Python company, while complaining to a list that Google was a goofy name. I'll bet he uses the word "google" as a verb yet doesn't realize how goofy that sounds to someone unfamiliar with Google? Oh well, I suppose he'll never try programming in Caml, he'd be too embarrassed to tell anyone. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
