Python is readable

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:37:09 -0400, Nathan Rice wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 9:44 AM, Albert van der Horst
> <albert at spenarnc.xs4all.nl> wrote:
>> In article <mailman.896.1332440814.3037.python-list at python.org>, Nathan
>> Rice  <nathan.alexander.rice at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000018.html

> Of course, I will give Joel one point: too many things related to
> programming are 100% hype, without any real substance; if his article
> had been about bullshit software hype and he hadn't fired the broadsides
> at the very notion of abstraction

He did no such thing. I challenge you to find me one place where Joel has 
*ever* claimed that "the very notion of abstraction" is meaningless or 
without use.



-- 
Steven