in reply to Re: Perl's driving design principle
in thread Perl's driving design principle
Wonderful, BrowserUk, simply wonderful! Is it perhaps a concidence that yesterday I saw a show by some young girls and boys comprising a series of ballets inspired by several Disney's cartoons, with one using "this" song as a basis? Well, I learnt there for the first time, having never seen the movie itself, that Hakuna Matata means "no worries (here)", and I reasoned that it reminded me, with the obvious differences, of Mushin, the state of "empty mind" in which samurai were said to fight: no worries, no though, no hesitation. A sensation which I've felt -however ridiculous- may it sound, while playing Tetris, at a point in which the game began to be automatic and did I pay no care to the points or anything whatsoever - and I could play like that for long, usually until a thought distracted me. Think of reaching the same state when severe injury or your own life is a possibility! Well, said this the next step is obvious: how good is Perl 6 as a martial art for the 21st century samurai? Will it provide us a Katana, and a Wakizashi too? (I don't know how much $Larry would like these metaphors...)
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