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Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it?

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On Thu, Oct 17, 2013 at 11:16 AM, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, October 17, 2013 11:07:48 AM UTC-4, Chris Angelico wrote:
>> Module names should be  descriptive, not fancy.
>
> Interesting comment, on a mailing list for a language named after a snake, especially by a guy who claims to prefer an language named after a fish :-)

Well, he did say "module names", not "language names".  Few language
names are descriptive, and those that are tend to be acronyms: BASIC,
LISP, COBOL, PHP, APL.  Note that while that last one is descriptive,
it does very little to distinguish itself from any other programming
language.

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Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Owen Jacobson <owen.jacobson@grimoire.ca> - 2013-10-16 23:13 -0400
  Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? random832@fastmail.us - 2013-10-17 00:22 -0400
    Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2013-10-17 05:48 +0000
      Offense versus harrassment (was: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it?) Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-10-17 17:44 +1100
        Re: Offense versus harrassment (was: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it?) Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-10-17 11:24 +0000
      Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Steve Hayes <hayesstw@telkomsa.net> - 2013-10-17 08:50 +0200
        Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-10-18 02:02 +0000
  Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Devin Jeanpierre <jeanpierreda@gmail.com> - 2013-10-16 21:32 -0700
  Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2013-10-17 15:36 +1100
  Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Steven D'Aprano <steve@pearwood.info> - 2013-10-17 09:20 +0000
    Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Zero Piraeus <z@etiol.net> - 2013-10-17 08:48 -0300
      Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com> - 2013-10-17 09:50 -0700
  Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? marduk@python.net - 2013-10-17 06:30 -0400
  Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-10-17 22:05 +1100
  Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-10-17 09:52 -0400
    Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Danyelle Davis <ladynikon@gmail.com> - 2013-10-17 10:38 -0400
    Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-10-18 02:07 +1100
      Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-10-17 10:16 -0700
        Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-10-17 13:43 -0600
        Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-10-17 20:53 +0100
        Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Tim Delaney <timothy.c.delaney@gmail.com> - 2013-10-18 07:14 +1100
        Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-10-18 09:56 +1100
          Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-10-17 20:10 -0400
            Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-10-18 14:45 +1100
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          Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-10-18 15:03 +1100
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          Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2013-10-18 15:09 +0100
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        Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? ishish <ishish@domhain.de> - 2013-10-18 09:57 +0100
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        Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-10-18 15:00 +1100
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  Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-10-17 16:03 +0100
  Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Paul Pittlerson <menkomigen6@gmail.com> - 2013-10-17 09:43 -0700
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    Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Serhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com> - 2013-10-17 21:13 +0300
      Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-10-18 01:49 +0000
        Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-10-18 08:58 +0100
  Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> - 2013-10-17 22:14 +0100
  Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Joshua Landau <joshua@landau.ws> - 2013-10-17 22:17 +0100
  Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Gene Heskett <gheskett@wdtv.com> - 2013-10-17 17:42 -0400
  Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Kevin Walzer <kw@codebykevin.com> - 2013-10-17 17:50 -0400
    Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2013-10-18 09:11 +1100
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