SASプログラマにとって大切なこと(Maxims of Maximally Efficient SAS Programmers)

 
PythonZen & PEP 8 検定試験 っていう面白い認定試験があったので受けてみました．
90点(70点ライン)でした．　Pythonのコーディングの啓蒙を兼ねた面白い試験でした

PEP８はコーディング規約みたいなもので
PythonZenは心構え的なイディオム集です

１．Beautiful is better than ugly.

２．Explicit is better than implicit.

３．Simple is better than complex.

４．Complex is better than complicated.

５．Flat is better than nested.

６．Sparse is better than dense.

７．Readability counts.

８．Special cases aren't special enough to break the rules.

９．Although practicality beats purity.

１０．Errors should never pass silently.

１１．Unless explicitly silenced.

１２．In the face of ambiguity, refuse the temptation to guess.

１３．There should be one– and preferably only one –obvious way to do it.

１４．Although that way may not be obvious at first unless you're Dutch.

１５．Now is better than never.

１６．Although never is often better than right now.

１７．If the implementation is hard to explain, it's a bad idea.

１８．If the implementation is easy to explain, it may be a good idea.

１９．Namespaces are one honking great idea – let's do more of those!

基本的にPythonだけでなく全言語に通じるところのある，まさに「禅」ですね

そういやこういうのの，SAS版ってあったかなぁと思うのですが
Kurt　Bremser　さんがフォーラムのリーダーもつとめるパワーユーザーで
その方が色んなところで発表されてる
Maxims of Maximally Efficient SAS Programmers
が面白いです
禅は対照的で，なんかマッチョな感じ（本人も）なのですが

https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Communities-Library/Maxims-of-Maximally-Efficient-SAS-Programmers/ta-p/352068


ログ読め，ドキュメント読め，データ見ろ　とかほんと，もっともなこといってます
13番とか結構，ぐっときました
「今はそれを学ぶ時間がない」と決して言うな　は　グサッときますよね

Maxim 13

When you're through learning, you're through.

(Will Rogers, John Wooden)

As long as you keep your ability and will to learn, you are alive. When you stop learning, you may not be dead, but you start smelling funny. Never say "I don't have the time to learn that now". The time to learn is NOW.

"Much have I learned from my teachers, more from my colleagues, but most from my students." - from the Talmud.