when talking about the API he states ": I imagined how things should work and then I made that happen... So how should things work? The first principle is that code should be clear and simple. If you want to output some text, you call web.output. If you want to get form input, you call web.input."

This is beautiful and exactly what programmers need. I can't emphasize enough the importants of simple intuitive APIs. This, for example, is in my opinion the #1 reason why jQuery dominates web frontends.