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Maybe it's just a joke, but for those that don't know that is Perl's motto and even better because there's the venerable, wonderful CPAN [0] which is the de fac
by theideaofcoffee 2y ago
Maybe it's just a joke, but for those that don't know that is Perl's motto and even better because there's the venerable, wonderful CPAN [0] which is the de facto package repository for the language.
[0] https://www.cpan.org/ https://www.cpan.org/
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- marcosdumay 2y agoIt's certainly a joke, because the Python original motto was "there's only one way to do it", and the current one is "there's only one (obvious) way to do it". The Python's motto was created as an obvious reference to the Perl's one, purposefully negating it.
- theideaofcoffee 2y agoThank you for that context!
- rangerelf 2y agoI hate when people reduce that line of the zen in that way; it's actually: "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it." That is different from "there's only one way of doing it" in so many ways that it's not even funny.
- sitkack 2y agoThe Python motto has always been satire.
- jerf 2y agoIt was a goal in the early 2000s. It has become satire.
- marcosdumay 2y agoKinda. They basically say "Perl is such a bad language that I bet if I inverted every thing on it I'll make a great language". So, not completely serious, but not just a joke either. Python isn't exactly a "reverse Perl" but it's close to it, and it's a really good language.