[Aahz]
"The joy of coding Python should be in seeing short, concise, readable classes that express a lot of action in a small amount of clear code -- not in reams of trivial code that bores the reader to death." --GvR
[Sunnan]
Can anyone please point me to the text that quote was taken from? I tried to use a search engine but I only found quotations, not the source.
That's because it was originally in email to a company-internal mailing list. If you're willing to move to Fredericksburg, VA and work for Zope Corp, perhaps they'll let you in to the PythonLabs list archives. Fair warning: I work for Zope Corp, and I'm not sure I can get into those archives. So don't switch jobs _just_ for that.
It's just that I'm having a hard time matching that quote to what I though python was about. I thought boring code was considered a virtue in python. ("Explicit is better than implicit", "sparse is better than dense".)
Because what is "boring"? The opposite of dense, tense, intense. Utterly predictable; it's like the combination of all my prejudices. Even before I knew, I thought "Bet Python separates statements from expressions".
Sunnan
PS.
(People easily offended can substitute "boring" for "readable" in the above text.)
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