九陰真經與The Zen of Python

先說金庸小說射鵰英雄傳裡一段故事，黃蓉使詐，騙歐陽鋒逆練九陰真經走火入魔的情節，有一段黃蓉故意胡謅一通，直令西毒先生抓破頭，仍是不知所云。

這可跟The Zen of Python對比：

• Beautiful is better than ugly.
• Explicit is better than implicit.
• Simple is better than complex.
• Complex is better than complicated.
• Flat is better than nested.
• Sparse is better than dense.
• Readability counts.
• Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.
• Although practicality beats purity.
• Errors should never pass silently.
• Unless explicitly silenced.
• In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.
• There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it.
• Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.
• Now is better than never.
• Although never is often better than *right* now.
• If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.
• If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.
• Namespaces are one honking great idea -- let's do more of those!

工程師可以做出晦澀、難解、糾結的ugly design or implementation，或是像Assembly code，甚而不留comment，弄到後來只有他自己才能看懂。

這樣一來，老闆大概就是西毒了，恐怕沒死也剩半條命。