Subj : Re: ANN: spidermonkey 0.0.1a released
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From : jjl@pobox.com (John J. Lee)
Date : Wed Oct 08 2003 01:23 am

Brendan Eich <brendan@meer.net> writes:

> 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! ;-)

Deal.

I'll change it when I do another release.

That is, assuming spidermonkey *isn't* a trademark??


John

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