Today's fun and educational Python recipe

[Chris Angelico]

On Thu, May 5, 2011 at 5:02 AM, Irmen de Jong <irmen at -nospam-xs4all.nl> wrote:
> I think that often, the cleverness of people is inversely proportional to
> the amount of CPU power and RAM that they have in their computer.

As Mark Rosewater is fond of saying, restrictions breed creativity.
Lack of computational resources is a major restriction (for an extreme
example of RAM shortage, look at how much code you can fit into a boot
sector without loading anything more from the disk). Take away all the
restrictions, and people will tend to code sloppily.

Chris Angelico