Carl Banks <pavlovevide...@gmail.com> writes:
> In answering the recent question by Mark Tarver, I think I finally hit
> on why Lisp programmers are the way they are (in particular, why they
> are often so hostile to the "There should only be one obvious way to
> do it" Zen).
That's not what the Zen says. The statement you're mis-quoting says,
minus the parenthetical:
There should be one obvious way to do it.
It's only in a parenthetical (“and preferably only one”) that the word
“only” appears. The emphasis is not on having only one way, but on
having one *obvious* way.
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