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A comment on Yammer moving from Scala to Java. Parent comment

Re:Yammer moving from Scala to Java by jronkone on Wednesday November 30, 2011 @03:09AM (#3294256)
> I've developed an aversion to anything that doesn't follow the Zen of Python: "There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it."

Ok, so which language(s) are you using then?

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Re:Yammer moving from Scala to Java by lloeki on Wednesday November 30, 2011 @07:39AM (#3294826)
ZoP doesn't say that there should be only one way to do something, it say there should be one obvious way to do it. That doesn't preclude alternate, equally or - preferably - less obvious ways. Many languages could stand close to that aphorism.
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