Why "flat is better than nested"?

[Raymond Hettinger]

On Oct 25, 8:23 am, Steve Holden <st... at holdenweb.com> wrote:
> And everyone taking the Zen too seriously should remember that it was
> written by Tim Peters one night during the commercial breaks between
> rounds of wrestling on television. So while it can give useful guidance,
> it's nether prescriptive nor a bible ...

This is Tim we're talking about.  I would put his work during
commercial breaks against most programmer's work during
uninterrupted full days at the office.  He probably created
the Timsort routine while playing Farmville in another window :-)


Raymond