On 2023-01-13 10:00:01 -0800, Ethan Furman wrote: > On 1/13/23 09:06, Stefan Ram wrote: > > "Beautiful is better than ugly." - The Zen of Python > > > > This says nothing. You have to sacrifice something that > > really has /value/!
Time?
Making something beautiful takes time.
> > "[A]esthetics are more important than efficiency." - Donald E. Knuth
>
> [okay, falling for the troll bait]
>
> Those two things do not say the same thing; further, in Python at least, and
> depending on the situation, aesthetics may /not/ be more important than
> efficiency.
This is true independent of language.
Aesthetics /may/ be more important than efficiency.
Aesthetics /may/ not be more important than efficiency.
It depends on the application.
Although I would deposit that if you care about run-time efficiency (as
opposed to developer-time efficiency), Python might not be your language
of choice at least for the part where efficiency is crucial.
hp
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