OT: on writing code

[Mark Wieder]

Eric Raymond's talking about Perl vs Python here, but the point's valid (if 
you're reading the article online, just ignore the comments)

"Also, I found I was spending more and more time wrestling with artifacts of 
the language rather than my application problems. And, most damning of all, 
the resulting code was ugly-this matters. Ugly programs are like ugly 
suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, 
because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is 
intimately related to our ability to process and understand complexity. A 
language that makes it hard to write elegant code makes it hard to write 
good code."

http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/3882

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 Mark Wieder
 mwieder at ahsoftware.net