Friday, January 25, 2008

thoughtful

I have been interested in "scripting language" since 2005. scripting language is a computer programming language which computer use to interpret text files. For example, google uses PERL and PYTHON to interpret and manage search results and streamline the whole search process, manage websites, etc. I am interested in it because in my research I need to process computed data as well, and my favorite is PYTHON. Here is a poem that is written in a python book, which I found thoughtful. And of course, thoughtful is better than ignorance.


Beautiful is better than ugly.
Explicit is better than implicit.
Simple is better than complex.
Complex is better than complicated.
Flat is better than nested.
Sparse is better than dense.
Readability counts.
Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.
Although practicality beats purity.
Errors should never pass silently.
Unless explicitly silenced.
In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
There should be one - and preferably only one - obvious way to do it.
Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.
Now is better than never.
Although never is often better than RIGHT now.
If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.
If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
Namespaces are one honking great idea - let's do more of those!

- Tim Peters, "The Zen of Python"

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