[NOTE: Not a serious post, just a response to a complaint about python as a
name and computer language names in general.]
On further thought, it seems that a name that reminds some people that it is a
computer language would be in hexadecimal and start with 0X. But that restricts
the remainder of the name to numerals plus {A,B,C,D,E,F} so something like
0XFACE or 0XDEAF or 0XFADE so how about:
0XFACADE
Clearly the language is just a façade behind whose face are other
representations we are normally deaf to heading down towards binary.
You can, of course, use the usual password tricks where zero can stand for oh,
one for el and so on. That extends the words you can make. And of course some
digits can expand with 2 becoming two or even to/too and 4 becoming fore.
PYTHON by this weird measure is horrible as every single letter is above F.
AnAC0nDA is much better.
ADA works!
And the cure for JAVA might be DECAF in a CAFÉ.
Better suggestions about what a computer language name should look like are
welcome. I am thinking a bit outside the box that a solution might be in a box.
I am thinking of a binary matrix containing 0/1 in a 2d-pattern that spells out
something or perhaps has two sections side by side where the background
letters on each side are all of the same digit while the foreground using the
other digit spells out itself, or perhaps the opposite. This is an ASCII
message environment so I won't show a sample. Not THAT would be a name, albeit
a long one.
Back to seriousness. I do not understand any suggestions that the python
language will go away any time soon. It will continue to evolve and sometimes
that evolution may introduce incompatibilities so earlier versions may have to
stop being supported. In many recent polls I keep seeing Python getting an
increasing share of programs written for all kinds of purposes. Of course,
there will be competition from other languages and new ones will arise. I also
see no reason any one person needs to steer the evolution indefinitely.
Unrestricted growth is bad but as the world advances, some growth is a good
idea. Bad analogy, but snakes do tend to shed their skin periodically as they
grow.
-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Martell <larry.mart...@gmail.com>
Sent: Wednesday, January 2, 2019 8:08 PM
To: Avi Gross <avigr...@verizon.net>
Cc: Python <python-list@python.org>
Subject: Re: the python name
On Wed, Jan 2, 2019 at 8:04 PM Avi Gross <avigr...@verizon.net> wrote:
>
> Challenge: Can we name any computer language whose name really would suggest
> it was a computer language?
COBOL (Common Business-Oriented Language) FORTRAN (Formula Translation)
PL/1 (Programming Language 1)
ALGOL (Algorithmic Language)
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