Bruno Desthuilliers submitted this really cool rant/essay/something from Tim Lesher that I hadn't seen before. I think that the original source is:
http://apipes.blogspot.com/2005/01/choose-python.html Choose Python. Choose readability. Choose the simple over the complex and the complex over the complicated. Choose dynamic typing. Choose duck typing. Choose decorators. Choose generators. Choose metaclasses if you don’t value your sanity. Choose to import this. Choose an almost-fanatical devotion to the BDFL, unless he comes up with something like optional static typing, in which case choose to whine about it in your blog until he stops. Choose Effbot. Choose Timbot. Choose wx. Choose to come up with a bloody implementation before spouting off on comp.lang.python or Python-Dev. Choose the explicit rather than the implicit. Choose one obvious way to do it, especially if you are Dutch. Choose list comprehensions. Choose Paul Graham’s essays and s/LISP/Python/g. Choose Jython when your marketing people choose Java. Choose speed of development over speed of execution, but when in doubt, import psyco. Choose to finish early and laugh at your colleagues as they waste their miserable lives bowing down in subservience to that sadistic little C++ compiler. Choose your future. Choose Python. I think that it might be a bit long to put on a T-Shirt but it is definitely cool :-) Still collecting ideas at: http://www.vanpyz.org/conference/tshirt_contest.html Cheers, Brian -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
