Creating alot of class instances?

[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> Steven D'Aprano <steve at REMOVE-THIS-cybersource.com.au> (SD) wrote:

>SD> On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 05:47:18 -0700, Scott David Daniels wrote:
>>> Steven D'Aprano wrote:
>>>> ... That's the Wrong Way to do it --
>>>> you're using a screwdriver to hammer a nail....
>>> 
>>> Don't knock tool abuse (though I agree with you here). Sometimes tool
>>> abuse can produce good results.  For example, using hammers to drive
>>> screws for temporary strong holds led to making better nails.

>SD> Historically, nails were invented a long time before screws. Screws as 
>SD> fasteners weren't invented until the 1400s, nails were used thousands of 
>SD> years ago.

>SD> And hammering screws makes temporary *weak* holds, not strong, because 
>SD> the screw only touches the sides of the hole lightly. Unless the screw 
>SD> has been specifically designed to be hammered, hammering screws is pretty 
>SD> much the definition of incompetence and/or laziness!

In our language (Dutch, i.e. Guido's mother tongue) `American
screwdriver' is an expression meaning `hammer' :=)
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