[Python-ideas] Retire or reword the "Beautiful is better than ugly" Zen clause

Greg Ewing greg.ewing at canterbury.ac.nz
Thu Sep 13 18:47:07 EDT 2018


M.-A. Lemburg wrote:
> For
> me, it refers to a general feeling of consistency, pureness and
> standing out on its own. It's abstract and doesn't have
> anything to do with humans.

Yep. And the proposed replacement "clean/dirty" doesn't even
mean the same thing. It's entirely possible for a thing to
be spotlessly clean without being beautiful or elegant.

-- 
Greg




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