Jussi Piitulainen <jpiit...@ling.helsinki.fi>: > I suppose early hackers were also incredibly tolerant of obscure names > in general.
At first, there was only the machine language. Assembly languages introduced "mnemonics" for the weaklings who couldn't remember the opcodes by heart. (Playing cards went through a somewhat similar transition when Americans added numbers for those who couldn't immediately perceive the number of dots on the card.) To this day, assembly language programmers prefer to keep the mnemonics short and leave the nonpreschoolers wondering what EIEIO could possibly stand for. Marko -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
