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Date: Wed, 25 May 2011 17:19:57 -0400
Subject: Re: Why did Quora choose Python for its development?
From: Matty Sarro <msarro@gmail.com>
To: John Bokma <john@castleamber.com>
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On Wed, May 25, 2011 at 3:14 PM, John Bokma <john@castleamber.com> wrote:
> Ethan Furman <ethan@stoneleaf.us> writes:
>
>> Terry Reedy wrote:
>>> On 5/25/2011 8:01 AM, John Bokma wrote:
>>>
>>>> to. Like I already stated before: if Python is really so much better
>>>> than Python readability wise, why do I have such a hard time dropping
>>>> Perl and moving on?
>>>
>>> [you meant 'than Perl'] You are one of the people whose brain fits
>>> Perl (or vice versa) better than most. So enjoy it. Ignore anyone
>>> who says otherwise.
>>
>> +1
>>
>> If everybody's brain worked the same, we wouldn't have so many
>> different languages to choose from.
>
> So, this means that in general language readability is not as clear cut
> as some seem to advertise ;-).
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General readability is a farce. If it was true we would only have one
section to the library. Different people enjoy reading, and can
comprehend better in different ways. THat's why some people are super
verbose - hell, just look at this here post! :)