boring the reader to death (wasRe: Lambda: the Ultimate DesignFlaw

Donn Cave donn at drizzle.com
Sat Apr 2 10:42:40 EST 2005


Quoth Scott David Daniels <Scott.Daniels at Acm.Org>:
| Sunnan wrote:
| > ...Because what is "boring"? The opposite of dense, tense, intense. Utterly 
| > predictable; it's like the combination of all my prejudices. Even before 
| > I knew, I thought "Bet Python separates statements from expressions".
|
| Python is for terse, pithy prose; Python is not for poetry.

That's an odd thing to say.  Poetry is verbose, florid?
Python is Dutch.

	Donn



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