"There ought to be one obviously best way to do each thing, for the sake of maintenance and readability."
In what way does a constriction of convention relate to readability or maintainability? The languages I'm most productive in have many ways to write readable code that accomplishes basically or exactly the same thing. I've always considered it a mark of a language's elegance and power that there would emerge multiple ways of expressing the same problem. But maybe we're thinking about different scopes here. Can you give an example?
In what way does a constriction of convention relate to readability or maintainability? The languages I'm most productive in have many ways to write readable code that accomplishes basically or exactly the same thing. I've always considered it a mark of a language's elegance and power that there would emerge multiple ways of expressing the same problem. But maybe we're thinking about different scopes here. Can you give an example?