In article <m31vbnntwn....@gmail.com>, WANG Cong <xiyou.wangc...@gmail.com> wrote: >On 07/01/10 13:49, Stephen Hansen <me+list/pyt...@ixokai.io> wrote: >>Wang Cong deleted the attribution for Aahz: >>> >>> It may not be "the" primary concern, but elegance certainly is *a* >>> primary concern. >> >> I concur. >> >> Its not explicitly stated, but it is the Zen 0. This is further >> supported by its implied presence in many of the Axioms and Truths of >> the Bots. >> >> "Beautiful is better then ugly"; and then the praise of the explicit, >> of simplicity, of readability. >> >> Elegance is a prime concern of Python, as it is the natural result of >> the Doctrines of Pythonicity. It may not be stated as a rule, but it a >> the reward that we are given for following the path of enlightenment. > >Isn't elegance somewhat equalent to perfection?
Not in the slightest. However, elegance is often achieved by aiming for perfection. >IMHO, if a language is perfect, it is elegant. Probably, but the converse is completely not true. P->Q does not imply Q->P, and if this isn't obvious to you, you need to study formal logic (which would be of assistance to you in your other programming endeavors). -- Aahz (a...@pythoncraft.com) <*> http://www.pythoncraft.com/ "If you don't know what your program is supposed to do, you'd better not start writing it." --Dijkstra -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
