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For syntax, ugly yet familiar is more successful than obscure yet beautiful nine times out of ten.

• dschobel 17y ago
  How can you possibly substantiate that statement?
  • jacquesm 17y ago
    java:lisp
    • dschobel 17y ago
      perl:python Hey this is fun! Now you do one again.
      • zach 17y ago
        Please. Python is so wildly C-like that it uses zero/non-zero for conditions.
        • dschobel 17y ago
          You're either being willfully ignorant or insincere now. Allowing non-boolean values in boolean clauses originated with lisp back in 1960. Furthermore, GvR is on the record as saying that his main influence for python was ABC.