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Subject: Re: Sexism in the Ruby community: how does the Python community manage it?
Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2013 20:53:01 +0100
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On 17/10/2013 20:43, Ian Kelly wrote:
> 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.
>

It's just so unfair, poor old CORAL gets left out of this type of list 
every time :(

-- 
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
Most poems rhyme,
But this one doesn't.

Mark Lawrence