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by rpastuszak 1818 days ago
I'm starting to think that everyone would be less outraged if they rebranded python3 to <insert_different_snake_here>
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Look at how well that's worked out for Perl and Raku.
The Raku name was adopted not even 2 years ago, and it's not really the most popular programming language niche anyways.
Shouldn't that be <insert_different_british_comedy_troupe>?
The Mighty Boosh just isn’t the same
I don't like overly tech-specific job titles, but "lead mighty boosh developer" sounds wonderful.

Every person saying "pythonic" instead of idiomatic would need to switch to "booshy" instead. The file extension would be .og (for old Greg).

Only pair programming would suffer as the main philosophy of the language would we coding in isolation.

> Only pair programming would suffer as the main philosophy of the language would we coding in isolation.

Well, that, and the constant drinking of Baileys from a shoe...

I'm sure they would have been.

I'm also sure they wouldn't have migrated.

Yeah I guess it’s a trade off