I think I code Perl in Drunken Monkey Style sometimes :-)
/brother t0mas
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Muahaha... you think your Perl is good... Drunken Monkey Style is strong, but it's no match for the Eight Camel Fingers. You'd better watch yourself. Hahahahahaha....
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A posting in the spirit of my original posting. :-)
I post in the style of the misinformed-code-monkey sometimes.
I really am never going to ask my Parents for a book on Martial Arts again,
they go and buy them from those bargain book shops, they have as much
authenticity as the works of Tuesday Lobsang Rampa.
Brother Frankus.
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Very true. It comes down to a matter of style. All are effective, but you need to recognize strentghs and weaknesses within systems. An example of this might be Taichi tends to be very circluar, but wing chun is very linear, always working off of the center line. As a result, a taichi practicioner who has studied taichi only, tends to get his butt rocked. Unfortunately, in martial arts as well as Perl, people start saying "My style better than your style" and sooner than later, "Uncle" is whining because the temple got burned and now you as the eldest must go and take revenge. Fortunately, Perlmonks, while not above squabling over fine points, appears to be dedicated to the maxum of "There is more than one way to do it" We must be wary of getting too entrenched in our own stule. I reciently read a posting that stated that other programmers when shown something new, say "that's cool" and ignore it, regardless of how much better it would improve their code. What happened to "Absorb what is useful" (Bruce Lee)? In Japan, warriors were encouraged to go out and spar with people from other schools to hone their techniques. In a way, that is what happens at Perlmonks.
---"There are a thousand roads on the path to truth, but if you choose one and follow it blindly, your truth becomes a falshood andy you a heritic."--- | [reply] |
As far as I remember Kung-fu means 'improvement' or 'skill trough training' what can best describe the goal of most of the perlmonks ?
"Trying to be a SMART lamer" (thanx to Merlyn ;-)
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