<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Paddy: >> Is having good 'code-fu' worthwhile? It may be trivial to score but do >> the results show who iss the better programmer? > > With Python you can't win, because Perl and Ruby allow for shorter > programs. > Beside the language, you win if you can invent more tricks, that you > have to avoid in real code, because it must be very readable. > The positive side of this game is that you exercise yourself, so you > get to know the programming language better, and you learn all the > corner cases of your language. Knowing them is useful, to avoid them > when you program for real, to avoid some kind of bugs generated by > corner cases. > > Bye, > bearophile >
Success lies in the journey, not the destination. or in Yoda-speak: In the journey success lies, in the destination not. -- Paul -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
