{"id":253,"date":"2002-05-28T22:11:34","date_gmt":"2002-05-29T06:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=253"},"modified":"2004-10-20T10:25:46","modified_gmt":"2004-10-20T18:25:46","slug":"qotd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=253","title":{"rendered":"QotD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Raymond: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxjournal.com\/article.php?sid=3882\">Why Python?<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nUgly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they&#8217;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.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eric Raymond: Why Python? Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they&#8217;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 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=253\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}