I've just copied the title of the page here:
http://www.python.org/about/success/esr/but this is another rant about languages....
Quoting:
"More than one way to do it" lent flavor and expressiveness at a small
scale, but made it significantly harder to maintain consistent style
across a wider code base.
--
-Dhruv Matani.
http://www.geocities.com/dhruvbird/
"How do you know when someone's crazy?"
"Well, you don't always. Depends on how many people think they're crazy."
-- Rumble Fish.