* Chris Angelico (Wed, 25 May 2011 08:01:38 +1000) > > On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:39 AM, D'Arcy J.M. Cain <da...@druid.net> wrote: > > One of my favorite quotes (not sure if it was about Perl or APL) is "I > > refuse to use a programming language where the proponents of it stick > > snippets under each other's nose and say 'I bet you can't guess what > > this does.'" > > Yes, I believe that was Perl. And an amusing quote. But most of the > point of it comes from the fact that Perl uses punctuation for most of > its keywords, whereas (say) Python uses English words; it's a lot more > fun to crunch something down when you can use $| and friends than when > you have to put "x and y", complete with spaces, for a simple boolean. > But that says nothing about which language is actually better for > working with... [...]
It does say something about readibility. And yes, "readability counts". And yes, readability says a lot about how good a language is for reading and working with. Thorsten -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
