"Ethan Furman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Jerry Stuckle wrote: > > As I've said before - good programmers can write good code in any > > language. > So... an eloquent speaker of English is also an eloquent speaker of > Spanish/French/German?
There's potentially a large difference between a "good" speaker of English/German/etc. vs. "eloquent." I'd tend to agree with Jerry that if you can write "good" code in one language, you can in pretty much any other as well... but that doesn't imply you're necessarily "eloquent" in any languages. :-) Eloquence is nice, but eradicating "bad" code in this world is about a million times more important than attempting to move people from "good" code to "eloquent" code. To be Pythonic here, "eloquent" code would perhaps often have clear, clean list comprehensions used when "good" code would use a "for" loop but still be easy to follow as well and perfectly acceptable in the vast majority of cases. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
