Python's "only one way to do it" philosophy isn't good?

[Neil Cerutti]

On 2007-06-12, Antoon Pardon <apardon at forel.vub.ac.be> wrote:
> On 2007-06-11, Terry Reedy <tjreedy at udel.edu> wrote:
>> More so than supporters of most other languages, in particular
>> Scheme?
>
> Well to my knowledge (which could be vastly improved), scheme
> doesn't have some Zen-rules that include something like this.
>
> I tried to google for similar remarks in relation to scheme but
> I got no results. Maybe your google skills are better.

It's in _The Revised^%d Report on Scheme_, Introduction:

  Programming languages should be designed not by piling feature
  on top of feature, but by removing the weaknesses and
  restrictions that make additional features appear necessary.

Of course, that was written well before Scheme had most of its
current features.

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