[Python-ideas] "try with" syntactic sugar

[Guido van Rossum]

On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 11:18 PM, Chris Rebert <pyideas at rebertia.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 1, 2009 at 11:16 PM, spir <denis.spir at free.fr> wrote:
>> Le Sun, 1 Mar 2009 14:31:58 -0800,
>> Guido van Rossum <guido at python.org> s'exprima ainsi:
>>
>>> Programming language
>>> design is not a rational science. Most reasoning about is is at best
>>> rationalization of gut feelings, and at worst plain wrong.
>
> +1 QOTW!

Let me add that this formulation was at least in part inspired by
reading "How we decide" by Jonah Lehrer.

http://www.amazon.com/How-We-Decide-Jonah-Lehrer/dp/0618620117

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--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.python.org/~guido/)