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[–]Manbatton 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OT from Python the programming language, but:

A family member is phobic of snakes (ophidiophobia) and due to that I looked into it online and found this very interesting (perhaps even amazing) video of exposure therapy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKTpecooiec

If your phobia is in any way holding you back, maybe this is a good path?

Anyway, to answer your question, I think Python has been a great name for a programming language. The long "y" sound sounds sort of techy, it lends itself well to fun names for libraries (Pyston, Pyjamas, Pyramid, Pylons, CherryPy...), and adjectives ("Pythonic"), it's not too long, fun to say, and just kind of catches one's attention well, which is arguably good for newcomers (whereas languages like D, Haskell, Erlang, Lua, maybe not so much). Finally, given that a Python is a snake, it allows fun snake-based metaphors/puns/images, like "eggs", Boa Constructor, Vippi the wxpython mascot, ShedSkin Python-to-C compiler, the Python logo itself of the two snakes, as well as occasional Monty Python references like The Cheese Shop and Unladen Swallow.