On Wed, 4 Oct 2017 11:46 pm, Rhodri James wrote: > On 04/10/17 12:07, bartc wrote: >> I've seen that example brought up before. It still doesn't cut any ice. >> >> You might as well be condescending of someone who finds Joyce or Proust >> unreadable, and prefers McBain, Simenon or Chandler. (Sorry, can't think >> of any modern pulp novelists). > > I don't think your comparison is appropriate. Joyce and Proust strike > me as the literary equivalent of Perl or APL; very clever but nearly > unreadable even for experts. No, think rather of Terry Pratchett.
+1 for mentioning Sir PTerry! And an extra bonus for it actually being relevant :-) -- Steve “Cheer up,” they said, “things could be worse.” So I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list