Comparison between Python and "Ruby"
Yukihiro Matsumoto
matz at netlab.co.jp
Tue Nov 2 00:48:52 EST 1999
Greg Ewing <greg.ewing at compaq.com> writes:
|Okay, so the Python war cry should be TMTOWTHMTOWTDI
|(There's More Than One Way To Have More Than One Way
|To Do It).
According to Guido's Foreword from Programming Python:
Readability is often enhanced by reducing unnecessary variability.
When possible, there's single, obvious way to code a particular
construct. This reduces the number of the choices facing the
programmer who is writing the code, and increases the chance that
it will appear familiar to a second programmer reading it.
I guess he loves reducing variablity, if possible, which is totally
against TMTOWTDI. I don't judge whether it is good or bad.
matz.
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