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The History of Python: Python's Design Philosophy
- krakensden 18y agoThis quote caught my eye: The ABC group strived for perfection. For example, they used tree-based data structure algorithms that were proven to be optimal for asymptotically large collections (but were not so great for small collections). That seems like a common thread in my own experience. It's too easy when you start a project to over-engineer to meet some imaginary future need for scale. Fix it later, and 2^32 is big enough for most things :P.
- newt0311 18y agoComplexity is always easier to design and with CS, it is easy to get away with as computers make it easy to hide from the end user.