On Wed, 2004-04-21 at 05:42, Andrew Ho wrote: > > Why do you think physicians especially would find Python readable? > > 1) Zope DTML and Python have simple syntax. > 2) No need to compile. > 3) Direct mapping of code fragments to URL. > 4) 100% web-browser accessible programming + runtime "integrated" > interface.
Thomas asked why physicians would find Python readable, not Zope. You are conflating Python with Zope again, Andrew. I think some answers to Thomas' question can be found in "The Zen of Python", which can be viewed by typing 'import this" into the Python interactive interpreter: Python 2.3.3 (#1, Feb 7 2004, 15:49:17) [GCC 3.2 20020903 (Red Hat Linux 8.0 3.2-7)] on linux2 Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information. >>> import this The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters Beautiful is better than ugly. Explicit is better than implicit. Simple is better than complex. Complex is better than complicated. Flat is better than nested. Sparse is better than dense. Readability counts. Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules. Although practicality beats purity. Errors should never pass silently. Unless explicitly silenced. In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess. There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it. Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch. Now is better than never. Although never is often better than *right* now. If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea. If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea. Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those! >>> -- Tim C PGP/GnuPG Key 1024D/EAF993D0 available from keyservers everywhere or at http://members.optushome.com.au/tchur/pubkey.asc Key fingerprint = 8C22 BF76 33BA B3B5 1D5B EB37 7891 46A9 EAF9 93D0
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