Yeah, the whole thing is too much - but all you need is one line: the last line, about the Guiness.
Anyone who's read the Zen before would get the idea. (As long as it has "Python Ireland" on it somewhere, so people don't think it's an add for Guiness!) -John Daniel Kersten wrote: > Interesting, though IMHO the Zen of Python seems a little wordy for a > t-shirt.. > > 2009/2/13 Rory Geoghegan <[email protected]>: > >> Michael, Alan and Me were messing with the Zen of Python to print on >> the t-shirt, and we were joking about something like this: >> >> Beautiful is better than ugly. >> Explicit is better than implicit, and that's fecking right! >> Simple is better than complex, like a Dublin street map. >> Complex is better than complicated. >> Flat is better than nested. >> Sparse is better than dense. >> Readability counts, just look at Finnegan's Wake. >> 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 Irish. >> 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. >> Drinking Guiness is one honking great idea -- let's do more of that! >> >> Visibly, it would need more work, but we've got something to build on >> >> --Rory >> >> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Daniel Kersten <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> Hahaha Pádraig, thats good. >>> >>> 2009/2/13 Pádraig Brady <[email protected]>: >>> >>>> Aoife Hughes wrote: >>>> >>>>> Yeah, you could get a St Paddy reference in there - he did apparently >>>>> drive all the snake out of Ireland. >>>>> >>>> http://www.pixelbeat.org/tmp/python_ireland.png >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- >>> Daniel Kersten. >>> Leveraging dynamic paradigms since the synergies of 1985. >>> >>> > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG - www.avg.com > Version: 8.0.234 / Virus Database: 270.10.23/1947 - Release Date: 02/11/09 > 18:11:00 > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Python Ireland" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.ie/group/pythonireland?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
