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Violation of orthogonality of design. http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch04s02.html#orthogonality http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch04s02

• dorianm 9y ago
  Or simply a "simple is better than complex" from PEP-20 https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/ https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/ Also, "Explicit is better than implicit." and "Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.", etc.
• astrobe_ 9y ago
  Doesn't apply here: it's not a designed system, it's a pile of hacks.
  • nebabyte 9y ago
    Doesn't matter; it's what shipped, and so is a system in spite of its quality or lack thereof. There's no problem pointing out a non-computer as not turing complete if it was shipped and sold as a computer.