Monty Python Puts Free Videos Online, Sells 23,000% More DVDs

Re:Monty Python Puts Free Videos Online, Sells 23,000% More ... by vlad on Friday January 23, 2009 @02:38PM (#446906)

The Python language (funny that in this context, I can't just say "Python" on Hacker News) was named after this show.

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Re:Monty Python Puts Free Videos Online, Sells 23,000% More ... by biohacker42 on Friday January 23, 2009 @02:55PM (#446934)

So what you're saying is that Guido van Rossum bought most of those DVDs?

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Re:Monty Python Puts Free Videos Online, Sells 23,000% More ... by dimitar on Friday January 23, 2009 @03:37PM (#447033)

No. The Python programming language is a great advertisement for the show. Especially in areas in which it wasn't aired. I would have never heard of the show if GvR didn't name his language after it. Its said that its named after the TV series in every book about the language, on the website and in Wikipedia.

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Re:Monty Python Puts Free Videos Online, Sells 23,000% More ... by wizard_2 on Friday January 23, 2009 @04:23PM (#447116)

it doesn't help that Python's interactive console is named Idle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDLE_(Python) and they have an IDE named Eric http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Python_IDE

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Re:Monty Python Puts Free Videos Online, Sells 23,000% More ... by likpok on Friday January 23, 2009 @09:28PM (#447613)

Also spam and eggs are common metasyntatic variables, and references to the pythons in comments is encouraged.

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Re:Monty Python Puts Free Videos Online, Sells 23,000% More ... by vlad on Friday January 23, 2009 @07:16PM (#447455)

Yes, that's precisely what my point was.

Guido spent all of his money on DVD's until he was broke again, just to give himself a great reason to dedicate another 10 years to improving the language, as well as to build the world's greatest Monty Python DVD Rental Library, similar to how Netflix operates, but mailing discs out by hand.

This is mentioned in the newest Python 3.0 book.

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