Avi Gross wrote:
The question that seems to come up too often about the python name is a distraction. In particular, it is answered fairly prominently in many places as just being a nonsensical name because a founder once liked a comedic entity that chose an oddball name, so they did too.
That may be how it started, but I don't think Python is a silly name for a programming language at all. There's a long tradition of naming things after animals that have some of the qualities you want people to associate with them. In the case of Python, it's not a particularly fast animal, but it is sleek and powerful, and its minimal design has a certain elegance to it. So, I think it's very appropriate. -- Greg -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
