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by eikenberry 1877 days ago
> every time I see a python talk (pycon or else), with fancy tricks like metaclasses..

All I can think of is what a mistake those features were in python. "Fancy tricks" are generally the author trying to be clever (in the Kernighan sense) and ends up obfuscating the result. Not saying it works this way in CL, I don't have the experience to make the call, but in Python it was (and probably still is) prevalent.
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erik_seaberg 1877 days ago
The goal is for a little bit of clever work to make the computer do a lot more stupid work. People get bored and make mistakes, and our brains are not getting any faster, so this kind of leverage is the only game in town.
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fzil 1876 days ago
I am sorry but what does this mean:

> the author trying to be clever (in the Kernighan sense)

I know that Kernighan is the author of the C book, but its been a while since I skimmed it.

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