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Why is it called Oil? That name is so loaded. I think it actually will give it less of a chance.
by chrisvalleybay 9y ago
Why is it called Oil? That name is so loaded. I think it actually will give it less of a chance.
- 72deluxe 9y agoA slippery slope to a worse name? I thought it was pretty slick...... I jest.
- chubot 9y agoI explain the name here: https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/7qn14p/oil_success_with_aboriginal_alpine_and_debian/dsqxgjh/ https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgrammingLanguages/comments/7qn14... Bizarrely (to me), more than one person thought the name was a play on the company "Shell Oil". Is that the connotation you got from it? That's unfortunate, but I think as people use it more, the name will take on a different connotation. Guido was fighting "Python == snake" for a long time too (it comes from Monty Python). There were a lot of people that said the name Python was stupid and you couldn't convince your boss to use a language with a name like that.