Re: Abominations of nature

["Tom Barta" <tbarta@...>]

On 8/30/07, steve donovan <steve.j.donovan@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 8/30/07, Thomas Breuel <tmbdev@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > But I do, because the reason we're using Lua is that it's simple and small.
> > The more complicated Lua becomes as a language, the less useful it becomes
> > for us.
>
> Precisely!  We all understand that difficult things often require
> difficult solutions. But straightforward things should be easy.
> Otherwise we are wasting brain cycles on overelaboration and
> unnecessary complexity.

Sounds like the Zen of Python
(http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0020/)...even if Python is bloated
compared to Lua.

-- 
Tom