Guido sees the light: PEP 8 updated

[Marko Rauhamaa]

Chris Angelico <rosuav at gmail.com>:

> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 6:50 AM, Ben Finney <ben+python at benfinney.id.au>
> wrote:
>>> > On Tue, 19 Apr 2016 01:04 pm, Rustom Mody wrote:
>>> > > And more generally that programmers sticking to text when rest
>>> > > of world has moved on is rather backward:
>>
>> You haven't supported that claim at all, and I see endless text everyday
>> in “the rest of the world”. So your claim is false.
>
> In this part of the world, I'm seeing a lot of emails/news posts that
> consist of text. How does the rest of the world discuss important
> topics? Is everything done with infographics and meme pics?

The "plain text" content type is used less and less. Really it is
reserved mostly to programmers. Even texters routinely field animated
emojies nowadays.

Text, in general, might have started to decline. I'm foreseeing a
not-too-distant future where only a smallish group of trained scribes
masters reading and writing. The remainder of the population will
consume and interact with animated pictures, videos, music, games etc.
Back to ancient Egypt.

Just look at the US presidential primaries, where the political
discourse seems to be centered on grunts, melees and simple slogans:

   “We won the evangelicals,” Trump said. “We won with young. We won
   with old. We won with highly educated. We won with poorly educated. I
   love the poorly educated.”

   <URL: https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-i-love-the-poorly-educated-144
   008662.html>

My point is not political; I'm only talking about the communication
media. The medieval populace regarded the Latin-spewing theologians with
awe. Maybe one day, the same superstitious respect will be afforded to
trained Python masters who can bend the machines to their will.


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