Why did Quora choose Python for its development?

Steven D'Aprano steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info
Thu May 26 09:35:10 EDT 2011


On Thu, 26 May 2011 12:44:47 +0000, Neil Cerutti wrote:

> On 2011-05-25, Matty Sarro <msarro at gmail.com> wrote:
>> General readability is a farce. If it was true we would only have one
>> section to the library. Different people enjoy reading, and can
>> comprehend better in different ways. THat's why some people are super
>> verbose - hell, just look at this here post! :)
> 
> Despite individual proclivities, there remain standards of readability
> enshrined in our dictionaries and grammar handbooks. Claiming that code
> readability of code is to be judged solely subjectively by each
> individual absolves code of the responsibility to communicate to more
> than just its author.

Bravo!

+1 Quote of the Thread


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Steven



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