Eric Raymond: Why Python?
Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they’re much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is intimately related to our ability to process and understand complexity. A language that makes it hard to write elegant code makes it hard to write good code.
The phrase “Iron Curtain” was coined by Churchill in a speech in Missouri, if memory serves. Is there a known source for “Cold War”?
Update: Dan Kohn did the legwork and got the goods:
Cold War
This term for a conflict between nations that falls short of all-out war was coined, appropriately enough, by George Orwell in October 1945. Many, including Safire, credit Bayard Swope, a speech writer for Bernard Baruch[,] for coining the term in a draft speech in 1946. Baruch didn’t use the phrase, though, until 1947. But Orwell beat him to the punch in an article in the Tribune.
Dan adds, “BTW, Churchill’s speech is here“.
Lately the panhandlers (and nobody else) keep addressing me as “big guy”. They did not always, or so it seems.
I suppose I could reply, “What do you want, little guy?”
How to make money off blogs according to Eve Kayden. If any advertising moguls are reading this, I’m willing to have a go. Six hundred pairs of eyeballs a month, baby!