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I just came across this again, and I think it could inspire us in some |
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of our recent conversations: |
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The Zen of Python |
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Beautiful is better than ugly. |
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Explicit is better than implicit. |
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Simple is better than complex. |
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Complex is better than complicated. |
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Flat is better than nested. |
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Sparse is better than dense. |
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Readability counts. |
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Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules. |
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Although practicality beats purity. |
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Errors should never pass silently. |
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Unless explicitly silenced. |
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In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess. |
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There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it. |
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Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch. |
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Now is better than never. |
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Although never is often better than *right* now. |
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If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea. |
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If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea. |
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Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those! |
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(from PEP 20: http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/ ) |
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So what is the Zen of Gentoo? |
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Cheers, |
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Ben | yngwin |
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Gentoo developer |
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Gentoo Qt project lead, Gentoo Wiki admin |