Verse 76 of the Dao de Jing 
The living are soft and yielding; 
the dead are rigid and stiff. 
Living plants are flexible and tender; 
the dead are brittle and dry. 

Those who are stiff and rigid 
are the disciples of death. 
Those who are soft and yielding 
are the disciples of life. 

The rigid and stiff will be broken. 
The soft and yielding will overcome.

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I happen to like Perl because it works the way I want things to work in almost all cases. This may seem like a good thing, but there are two ways to look at it:
  1. I am become bigoted and have little interest and in fact have spite for other languages and how they work (though I will always think that Scheme rocks and will always lament that Emacs wasn't written in Scheme). Thus I am the stiff disciple of death mentioned in the above paragraph. It is paradoxical that the most flexible thing could make me the least flexible. Paradoxical until you figure all yang needs its yin.
  2. The lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. So perhaps I have just reached a stage of desirelessness because I bask in the rays of the Almighty Programming Language.

In reply to Perl is Flexible, So I am Not by princepawn

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