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FSF Awards Guido van Rossum For Python

Posted by timothy on from the congratulations dept.

bkuhn writes: "The FSF today bestowed its fourth annual Award for the Advancement of Free Software upon Guido van Rossum . The two other finalists were L. Peter Deutsch and Andrew Tridgell." Developing Python seems like a good reason :)

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  1. Re:Yes, but... by Zagadka · · Score: 4, Insightful
    It's one thing to program in good style, but it's another to have the language force you to. Yes, I'm still resentful over that.
    If you ever have to maintain code written by others, you'll be glad that Python encouraged them to use good style. (I say "encouraged", because no language really forces good or bad style.) It's a well known fact, even among Perl advocates, that the vast majority of Perl code is indecipherable. It isn't impossible to write fairly clean code in Perl, but the language certainly doesn't encourage it.