スイッチの作成

In the discussion about issues raised by Revenge of the Nerds on the LL1
mailing list, Paul Prescod wrote something that stuck in my mind.

束Python's goal is regularity and readability, not succinctness損

On the face of it, this seems a rather damning thing to claim about a
programming language. As far as I can tell, succinctness = power. If so, then
substituting, we get

束Python's goal is regularity and readability, not power.損

and this doesn't seem a tradeoff (if it is a tradeoff) that you'd want to
make. It's not far from saying that Python's goal is not to be effective as a
programming language.

    -- Paul Graham
    -- Succinctness is Power ( http://www.paulgraham.com/power.html )

    <rindolf>  ayita: kfogel interview is
               http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/07/27/1555228
      <ayita>  Thanks!
    <rindolf>  ayita: good girl.
    <rindolf>  ayita: kfogel interview?
    <rindolf>  ayita: kfogel interview?
            *  Dave` smells ayita timing out
      <darix>  ayita: index kfogel.*
      <darix>  you killed her it seems
    <rindolf>  darix: LOL
 <davidjames>  It's not nice to hurt people
      <Dave`>  Oh my god, they killed ayita!
    <sussman>  hiiiiiiiiiidey ho!
            *  rindolf quickly finds someone else to blame.
    <rindolf>  a scape-goat!
    <rindolf>  sussman: you'll be the ideal scape-goat for the murder of
               ayita.
    <sussman>  I think you'de be good at the 'werewolf' game
    <rindolf>  "You know it would be the easiest thing to blame it on
               Nanny."
    <rindolf>  "Let's do it then."

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