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Woah! Didn't know that. Just to verify I went on Wikipedia[1] and it sure is the case

> An important goal of Python's developers is keeping it fun to use. This is reflected in the language's name—a tribute to the British comedy group Monty Python[70]—and in occasionally playful approaches to tutorials and reference materials, such as examples that refer to spam and eggs (from a famous Monty Python sketch) instead of the standard foo and bar.[71][72]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_(programming_language)




Watch out! You know if you highlight that, some twitterati will throw a fit and demand to call the language "snek".

/sarcasm... but not really


There’s already a Python-like language called “Snek”: https://sneklang.org/

(Made for really tiny devices; originally implemented to run on a device with 32kB of Flash and 2kB of RAM).


>and in occasionally playful approaches to tutorials and reference materials

Delete this before they find out!




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