[Python-ideas] Retire or reword the "Beautiful is better than ugly" Zen clause

Chris Angelico rosuav at gmail.com
Fri Sep 14 17:29:08 EDT 2018


On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 6:09 AM, Davide Rizzo <sorcio at gmail.com> wrote:
> One way out of the impasse is to draw upon the feeling behind the
> adjective. We call "beautiful" something that appeals to us, makes us
> comfortable, or inspires us awe. Ugly is something that makes us
> uncomfortable, repels us, disconcerts us. "Let awe and disconcert
> drive you"? "Attraction and repulsion are important"?

Oooh. This is a good one! Let's start using more electromagnets in our
source code.

ChrisA


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