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Python has a pretty big naming problem too. Ophidiophobia is the number one phobia in the world, and even though "python" is from Monty Python and not the snake
by boxed 2y ago
Python has a pretty big naming problem too. Ophidiophobia is the number one phobia in the world, and even though "python" is from Monty Python and not the snake, people keep posting enormous pictures of snakes on book covers and blogs, making it basically impossible for ophidiophobia sufferers to go near python. There are estimates that this is 10% of the population.
Now.. do I think Python should change its name? No.
- yau8edq12i 2y agoI am extremely skeptical about the idea that 10% of the population has a phobia of serpents severe enough to avoid learning a programming language named after a kind of snake.
- boxed 2y agoYou mean severe enough to want to avoid being exposed to pictures of snakes. You have to see it from the sufferers perspective.