On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 12:45 PM, Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.pyt...@pearwood.info> wrote: > Programming is a skill, like writing iambic pentameter. Should liberal > arts courses ban the use of iambic pentameter by poets because some > people find it confusing and can't count syllables or tell the difference > between stressed and unstressed? (I know I can't. My wife despairs that I > am so useless at anything like poetry.)
Iambic pentameter is hard. I know, I tried writing eight lines of it for my brother's wedding. (Okay, I was writing *acrostic* iambic pentameter, putting his wife's new surname down the left edge of the page, but still, it's pretty restrictive.) It's much more fun, I reckon, to write paragraphs of text roughly eighty characters across. Prosaic, I know.... ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
