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all these cool new features! what's the thing they always say about python? "there's more than one way to do it"?
by a-dub 6y ago
all these cool new features! what's the thing they always say about python? "there's more than one way to do it"?
- Groxx 6y agoOur old friend, Tim Toady. He has never left us, even though Python did try to pour bicarbonate on him.
- dagurp 6y agoThat's a Perl slogan but I suspect you already knew that
- cutler 6y agoPython was always a second-rate imitation of Perl. Camel > Python.
- a-dub 6y agoyep, corresponding python slogan from PEP-20: "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." this was the compelling argument for python to those who were struggling with large and hard to maintain legacy perl codebases. python was supposed to be a constrained, simple language that encouraged readability- ideally a solution to the problems everyone was facing. history really does appear to repeat it seems, even in computerdom where the timescales are shorter.