There_is_more_than_one_way_to_do_it

There is more than one way to do it (TIMTOWTDI, usually pronounced "Tim Toady") is a Perl motto. The language was designed with this idea in mind, so that it "doesn\'t try to tell the programmer how to program". This makes it easy to write extremely messy programs, but, as proponents of this motto argue, it also makes it easy to write beautiful and concise ones.

The Zen of Python has a principle which is the exact opposite of TIMTOWTDI: "There should be one—and preferably only one—obvious way to do it."

External links

• Perl, the first postmodern computer language by Larry Wall
• There Is More Than One Way To Do It on the WikiWikiWeb

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