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

João Santos jmcs at jsantos.eu
Thu Sep 13 08:16:44 EDT 2018


One important difference between master/slave and beautiful/ugly is that
the first pair are concrete concepts that typically applies to people, and
the second are abstract concepts that always applied also to objects and
abstract concepts.




On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 at 13:16, Antoine Pitrou <solipsis at pitrou.net> wrote:

> On Thu, 13 Sep 2018 12:32:43 +0200
> Oleg Broytman <phd at phdru.name> wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 12:22:14PM +0200, Jacco van Dorp <
> j.van.dorp at deonet.nl> wrote:
> > > I'm pleasantly surprised by the general response here. I was taking it
> > > seriously because, well, that's how far it's going everywhere.
> >
> > 1. I couldn't believe it could be serious.
> >
> > 2. I was sure it was trolling on the trail of
> >    https://bugs.python.org/issue34605
> >
> > 3. The name of a Canadian actress combined with Russian free email
> >    service made the suspicion more obvious.
>
> Good point.  I don't know much about actresses and gmane hides the
> provider part of e-mail addresses.
>
> Regards
>
> Antoine.
>
>
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