[Jonathan Fine <jfine2...@gmail.com>] > The first line from "import this" is > > The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters > > I suggest we put this discussion on hold, until Tim Peters (copied) > has had a chance to respond. > > Don't look at me - I was merely channeling Guido ;-)
That said, "beautiful v. ugly" in this context has nothing to do with human appearance. It's in the same general sense as in other technical fields: there's beautiful & ugly physics, beautiful & ugly mathematics, beautiful & ugly computer code. And not all people agree on which is which, and that's fine. Whatever _your_ aesthetic standards, you almost certainly prefer what you perceive to be beautiful than what you perceive to be ugly. It's as neutral, to me, as "good is better than evil". So I oppose changing it. If I were to change anything, I'd drop the reference to "Zen". That wasn't part of the original, and was added by someone else. If, e.g., a Zen Buddhist objected that this use trivializes their beliefs, I'd have real sympathy with _that_. But I'd be greatly surprised if a Zen Buddhist exists who objected to wordplay ;-)
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