"The World's Most Maintainable Programming Language"

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John Salerno wrote:
> There is an article on oreilly.net's OnLamp site called "The World's 
> Most Maintainable Programming Language" 
> (http://www.oreillynet.com/onlamp/blog/2006/03/the_worlds_most_maintainable_p.html). 
> 
> 
> It's not about a specific language, but about the qualities that would 
> make up the title language (learnability, consistency, simplicity, 
> power, enforcing good programming practices). I thought this might be of 
> interest to some of you, and I thought I'd point out the two places 
> where Python was mentioned:
> 
> from Part 4, Power:
> "Of course (second point), a language that requires users to extend it 
> to be productive has already failed, unless it can enforce that there is 
> one obvious solution to any problem and autonomously subsume the first 
> working solution into the core language or library. Python is a good 
> example of this practice. There is a strong polycultural subcommunity in 
> the world of free and open source, and the members of this group 
> consider the lack of competing projects in Python (one XML parser, one 
> logging library, one networking toolkit) to be counterintuitive and even 
> counter to the goal of language progress. They’re wrong; this is 
> actually a strong force for cohesion in the language and community, 
> where the correct answer to a novice’s question of “How can I parse 
> XML?”, “How can I publish a database-driven web site?”, or even “How can 
> I integrate the legacy system of an acquired company from a different 
> industry with our existing legacy system?” (to prove that this principle 
> does not only apply to small or toy problems) is usually “Someone else 
> has already implemented the correct solution to that problem — it is 
> part of the standard library.”"

xml templates ? ORM ?