Journal dedazo's Journal: The Python History Blog 8
Guido van Rossum and Greg Stein have set up a new blog that provides extremely interesting details on the early years of Python. Great quote on the origin of the name:
So, rather than over-analyzing the naming problem, I decided to under-analyze it. I picked the first thing that came to mind, which happened to be Monty Python's Flying Circus, one of my favorite comedy troupes. The reference felt suitably irreverent for what was essentially a "skunkworks project". The word "Python" was also catchy, a bit edgy, and at the same time, it fit in the tradition of naming languages after famous people, like Pascal, Ada, and Eiffel. The Monty Python team may not be famous for their advancement of science or technology, but they are certainly a geek favorite. It also fit in with a tradition in the CWI Amoeba group to name programs after TV shows.
Highly recommended.
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Cheers for the link :)
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Don't feed teh trollz!
(I kid, I kid!)
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I see someone has not expanded their horizons beyond the Microsoft island <g>
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Hey, I play around with PHP and MySQL when I have time. I just can't see the benefits over the MS stack, other than the price of the hosting platform.
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Why don't you take a seat over there... those nice gentlemen want to have a word with you :)
Oh, agreed. Even as much as I love Python and the things I can do with it, there are things for which Windows Server/.NET/Visual Studio/MSSQL are just better, especially in corporate environments. Technical issues aside (and .NET is simply superior in any number of ways) I'm still as likely to be laughed out of the proverbial conference room as I was six years ago if I
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Why don't you take a seat over there... those nice gentlemen want to have a word with you :)
Rimshot! :) I guess it's OK. Finding what does what on the runtime is complicated, but the docs are good. And I suppose if you're careful you can write secure apps with it. Wikipedia and a ton of other high-traffic sites seem to do well. It is kind of weird to be back in an ASP-like environment... except without a decent debugger.
So I don't even go there, even when it might make sense. On the other hand, when it does
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Don't get me started on that...
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My pleasure. I enjoyed reading all that and I thought I'd share. I just hope they keep it up.