Steve Holden wrote:
>> While the sentiment behind the list.clear() suggestion is noble, it is
>> an exercise in futility to design a language around the presumption
>> that other programmers are incapable of learning the basics of the
>> language.
>
> +1 QOTW
>> There was a pithy Tim Peters quotation to the effect that he was
>> unpersuaded by language proposals predicated on some hypothetical
>> average programmer not being smart enough to understand something that
>> the rest of us find to be basic.
>>
> Well, for those who can't find it you just provided a fairly pithy
> Raymond Hettinger quote :-)
for the record, the original quote is:
The "of course, while *I* have no problem with this at all, it's
surely too much for a lesser being" flavor of argument always rings
hollow to me. Are you personally confused by the meanings for "+" that
exist today? *Objecting* to the variations is a different story; I'm
wondering whether you personally stumble over them in practice. I
don't; Steven doesn't; I doubt that you do either. I'm betting that
almost *nobody* ever does, in which case those "less nimble colleagues
and students" must be supernaturally feeble to merit such concern.
-- Tim Peters, 29 Apr 1998
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