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

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Thu Sep 13 23:53:50 EDT 2018


On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 1:41 PM, Tim Peters <tim.peters at gmail.com> wrote:
> I presume "Zen" came to their mind because it's brief, and a critical
> reading reveals a number of seeming ambiguities and contradictions, yet it
> nevertheless _appears_ to say _something_ ;-)

"Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas - only I don't exactly
know what they are! However, SOMEBODY killed SOMETHING: that's clear,
at any rate..."
-- Alice Liddell, regarding "Jabberwocky"

ChrisA


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