In <f8b6c925-ca3b-4be4-8851-6b18c6465...@j18g2000yqd.googlegroups.com> rantingrick <rantingr...@gmail.com> writes:
>On Oct 25, 5:07=A0am, kj <no.em...@please.post> wrote: >> In "The Zen of Python", one of the "maxims" is "flat is better than >> nested"? =A0Why? =A0Can anyone give me a concrete example that illustrate= >s >> this point? >Simple. This commandment (endowed by the anointed one, GvR) is >directed directly at lisp and those filthy lispers. If you don't know >what lisp is then Google it. Then try to program with it for one hour. >Very soon after your head will explode from the nested bracket plague >and then you shall be enlightened! Some of the earliest programming I ever did was in Lisp. Scheme actually. In good ol' 6.001, back in '82. I loved it. I have no problem whatsoever with it. Benightedly yours, ~kj -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
