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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
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Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> - 2013-10-17 09:52 -0400
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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 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
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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 09:56 +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 14:45 +1100
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Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it? Nelle Varoquaux <nelle.varoquaux@gmail.com> - 2013-10-18 17:00 +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 02:12 +0000
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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
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