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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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