PYTHON

Etymology: see *

FAQ:
Guido van Rossum:
ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/python/FAQ
ftp://rtfm.mit.edu/pub/usenet/news.answers/python-faq/
http://www.lib.ox.ac.uk/internet/news/faq/archive/python-faq.part1.html

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                                                  Python

MAC NAME:
tcpython 
[ = Python Think C compiler]
mwpython
[ = Python MW 68K compiler]                                    

VERSION: 1.2 beta3                                

README:
"If you don't know yet what Python is: it's an interpreted, extensible, embeddable, interactive, object-oriented programming language."  

AUTHOR:
Guido van Rossum
    
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To: "Antreas P. Hatzipolakis" <xpolakis@athena.compulink.gr>
From: Guido van Rossum <guido@CNRI.Reston.VA.US>
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 09:24:26 -0400

>I have a question about the language name:
>Why the greek name PYTHON ?

I'm afraid it's not a greek name to me...  It's named after Monty
Python's Flying Circus, a BBC comedy series in the seventies (and
being rerun to this date!).

--Guido van Rossum <guido@CNRI.Reston.VA.US>
URL: <http://www.python.org/~guido/>