[Python-ideas] 80 character line width vs. something wider

spir denis.spir at free.fr
Wed May 20 11:41:11 CEST 2009


On the other side, the Oulipo school of writing believes that writing with
apparently arbitrary constraints improves the results.

???

How can you assert such a non-pertinent (and wrong) statement (in regard to the point beeing discussed)?
Oulipo games are about helping *creativity*. A set of strict constraints helps the poet be creative -- or rather they let whatever unconsciounsly creates "popping" good mattery into conscious poetic minds.

Denis



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