Re^3: Gods of perl

Though the Bible is my readme, I find it odd that you didn't think to meantion any of the other "holy" books: I Ching (Book of Change), Quran, Tora, the many writtening of the Zen Roshis (and yes I could keep adding to this list). Though I don't wish to open this topic to a broader discuss (that would be inappropriate for perlmonks), I did wish to meantion that others might think of a different "readme".

"Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum - I think that I think, therefore I think that I am." Ambrose Bierce

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Re^4: Gods of perl by dimar (Curate) on Nov 05, 2004 at 19:32 UTC
A README file is just an introduction to the system, it's a part of the system, in fact the most trivial part. If you're talking about a README for your life, then your birth certificate (or some similar tangible statement that "YOU ARE HERE ->(X)" is enough for a README isn't it?? The real trick is what happens when you use the system, run it thru the paces and realize how it works in ways that no one else even imagined, or suggested, or anticipated. Then do you not begin to see the "words" behind the readme, and the programming behind the code. There is no spoon.	[reply]

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Re^4: Gods of perl
by dimar (Curate) on Nov 05, 2004 at 19:32 UTC

A README file is just an introduction to the system, it's a part of the system, in fact the most trivial part. If you're talking about a README for your life, then your birth certificate (or some similar tangible statement that "YOU ARE HERE ->(X)" is enough for a README isn't it??

The real trick is what happens when you *use* the system, run it thru the paces and realize how it works in ways that no one else even imagined, or suggested, or anticipated. Then do you not begin to see the "words" *behind* the readme, and the programming *behind* the code.

There is no spoon.

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