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From: Neil Cerutti <neilc@norwich.edu>
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Subject: Re: PEP 8 and extraneous whitespace
Date: 25 Jul 2011 11:37:04 GMT
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On 2011-07-24, Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> wrote:
> Code is also more densely expressive and provides less
> redundancy in expression, and the reader is required to make
> much finer scrutiny of it than of natural language text.

The best writing is less redundant than a line of code, not more.
But most people don't have enough time to write that little.

-- 
Neil Cerutti