in reply to Perl, Perlmonks & Linguistics

I'm surprised no one has brought up the left-right brain hemispheres. Take the Hemispheric Dominance Test. I think Perl programmers are a special breed who like to keep their conciousness on the "nerve gateway" which joins the 2 hemispheres....blending mathematical symbols and plain words into works of genius. :-)

I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh

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Re^2: Perl, Perlmonks & Linguistics
by Forsaken (Friar) on Apr 15, 2005 at 12:54 UTC
    In that case perhaps I should delete my PM account ;-) One of the main ideas behind Asperger is that one side of the brain is far more active than the other...yet for some reason especially Perl feels really good to work with.

    Remember rule one...
      I googled for "brain hemispheres", and came across a few interesting links, about people who had their Corpus Collosum severed ( a few years ago, the witch doctors thought that cutting it would prevent seizures). Anyways, it seems either hemisphere is capable of providing the function of the other...maybe at a subdued level.

      Personally, I believe the brain is like a radio tranceiver. We tune into certain "thought broadcasts", and likewise, we transmit. But it also has a "dis-connected auto-mode", which sadly, most people run on. :-)


      I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh