General question about Python design goals

Christoph Zwerschke cito at online.de
Mon Nov 28 18:51:36 EST 2005


Peter Hansen schrieb:
> Christoph Zwerschke wrote:
>
>> Ok, these are nice aphorisms with some truth. But I had to think of 
>> the German excuse "Wer Ordnung hält ist nur zu Faul zum Suchen - ein 
>> Genie überblickt das Chaos." ("Those who try to keep things tidy are 
>> just too lazy to search for searching - a genius surveys the chaos").
> 
> 
> Is that really the translation?  "too lazy to search for searching"?
> What does that mean?

Sorry. Cancel either "to search" or "for searching". I noticed I made a 
lot of typos in that posting. In the German sentence, there should be 
comma after "ist", and "faul" should be written with a lowercase "f". 
Probably this caused additional confusion for Google...

-- Christoph




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