Subj : Re: ANN: spidermonkey 0.0.1a released
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From : Brendan Eich <brendan@meer.net>
Date : Tue Oct 07 2003 01:59 pm

Brendan Eich wrote:

> John J. Lee wrote:
> 
>> well, maybe the real reason, if I'm honest, is that pyspidermonkey is
>> ugly and long, and spydermonkey is just too cute ;-)
> 
> That's a great name!  Trademark law wouldn't find it different enough, 
> but I don't care.  It works in the crucial "py" meme.  Why not?

Hmm, I didn't trim the cited sentence enough.  I was asking "Why not?" 
about SpyderMonkey.  That rocks! ;-)

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