I've just read an article "Building Robust System" by Gerald Jay Sussman. The article is here: http://swiss.csail.mit.edu/classes/symbolic/spring07/readings/robust-systems.pdf
In it there is a footprint which says: "Indeed, one often hears arguments against building exibility into an engineered sys- tem. For example, in the philosophy of the computer language Python it is claimed: \There should be one|and preferably only one|obvious way to do it."[25] Science does not usually proceed this way: In classical mechanics, for example, one can construct equa- tions of motion using Newtonian vectoral mechanics, or using a Lagrangian or Hamiltonian variational formulation.[30] In the cases where all three approaches are applicable they are equivalent, but each has its advantages in particular contexts." I'm not sure how reasonable this statement is and personally I like Python's simplicity, power and elegance. So I put it here and hope to see some inspiring comments. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
