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[Python-Dev] Python "2migr8"

Ryan Gonzalez rymg19 at gmail.com
Tue Apr 15 04:15:32 CEST 2014 
On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 9:03 PM, Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 7:17 AM, Chris Barker <chris.barker at noaa.gov>
> wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 1:26 PM, Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org>
> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> >> - I'd prefer a name that plays on 2 and 3, not 2 and 8. :-)
> >
> > How about mirg2**3 (pronounced "migrate") ?
> >
> > ;-)
> >
>
> Just read this, and laughed so loudly and suddenly that my brother's
> cat jumped in fright.
>
> Spelled 2**3 and pronounced 8 makes perfect sense, same as spelling
> "Mercurial" as "hg".
>

...unless the reader doesn't know math. That would be
funny...*migrtoostarstarthree*


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> ChrisA
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Ryan
If anybody ever asks me why I prefer C++ to C, my answer will be simple:
"It's becauseslejfp23(@#Q*(E*EIdc-SEGFAULT. Wait, I don't think that was
nul-terminated."
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