Actually, I see a fascinating parallel between the martial arts and Perl. I used to study Kung-fu many years ago and was getting rather decent at it (but ask me about the scar on my upper lip sometime). In the course of studying, I continuously heard students of many disciplines say something like: "our art is about realizing that you don't need to fight." Well, that's all well and good, but those same students would often follow-up with something like "my /sifu|sensei|instructor|whatever/ can kick your instructor's @$$."

Can you say "missing the point", boys and girls? I knew you could.

In perl, we so often hear "there is more than one way to do it"... so long as that way is Perl.

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In reply to (Ovid) RE: Kung-fu vs Perl by Ovid
in thread Kung-fu vs Perl by frankus

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