To me the python quote can be adjusted to "There should be one—and preferably only one—obvious way to say it.” which is never true I think? It denies both the multi faceted nature of problems and the subjectivity of writers. I often hear experienced developers picked Clojure because it “got out of the way and let me focus on the problem.” I also think Clojure tries to explicitly tackle software growth in a way others do not. So for me a similar (hopefully not entirely meaningless) phrase for Clojure might be “There should a way to say it, and grow it, as I see it.”
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