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[Matthew Fuchs] >Every time you have orthogonal ways of doing the same thing, >you end up with a cartesian product of cases. Yes. There are those who find great beauty in these cartesian products and hours of endless intellectual fun munching on the combinations - they have the TIMTOWTDI gene[1]. These people typically love human language and literature. Many have a background in the arts. Some of then are linguists. Many of them prefer Perl for text processing. Then there are those with the TSBOOWTDI gene[1]. They see beauty in simple things and get their kicks out of coming up with ways to re-use a handful of core facilities in new ways. Many of them prefer Python for text processing. I have the TSBOOWTDI gene. I can think of numerous people I know who have the TIMTOWTDI gene and one or two Rennaisance men with both! The latter tends to smother the former in standards work. If I list the top ten smartest people I know, 8 are TIMTOWTDI's. However the top two are hybrid TIMTOWTDI / TSBOOWTDI. East is east and west is west and never the twain shall meet. Sean [1] There Is More Than One Way To Do It http://www.perl.org/press/glossary.html [2] There Should Be One Obvious Way To Do It http://www.nevada.edu/~cwebster/Python/ http://www.propylon.com Featured speaker at Geek Cruises' XML Excursion '02 http://www.geekcruises.com/home/xml_02_home.html
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