There is more than one way to do it
- 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
* [http://www.perl.com/pub/a/1999/03/pm.html Perl, the first postmodern computer language] by Larry Wall
* [http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ThereIsMoreThanOneWayToDoIt There Is More Than One Way To Do It] on the WikiWikiWeb
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there's more than one way to skin a cat — there’s more than one way to skin a cat phrase used for saying that there is another way to get what you want, especially when other people are trying to prevent you from getting it Thesaurus: describing or relating to ways of doing thingshyponym … Useful english dictionary
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there is more than one way to get a pig to market — or[flay a fox] or[skin a cat] There are always new and different ways to accomplish a difficult task. A proverb. * / How did you get Tommy to study so hard? Eleanor asked. I simply disconnected the television set, Tommy s mother answered. There s … Dictionary of American idioms
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There's more than one way to skin a cat. — humorous something that you say which means that there are several possible ways of achieving something. It may be illegal for them to organise a strike, but they can still show the management how they feel. There s more than one way to skin a… … New idioms dictionary
more than one way to skin a cat — When people say that there is more than one way to skin a cat, they mean that there are different ways of achieving the same thing … The small dictionary of idiomes
