Programming logbook

• The place where I save notes, journey and learnings about programming as well as related tools.

Concept

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Reflections

Firstly, let's start with these principles

• Beautiful is better than ugly.
• Explicit is better than implicit.
• Simple is better than complex.
• Complex is better than complicated.
• Flat is better than nested.
• Sparse is better than dense.
• Readability counts.
• 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 Dutch ¹.
• 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.
• Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!

The Zen of Python, by Tim Peters

Reference: Zen of python

Footnotes

1. The second part (“unless you're Dutch”) is a joke about Guido van Rossum, the creator of Python, who is Dutch. ↩