No, no, no, you've got it all wrong. You CAN do it! You just have to skip the slip and sail south where it's warm for the winter. Then you can keep your sword and plunder a computer warehouse for laptops. With solar cells for sails a modern viking could code at sea for months without docking.

I'd buy a perl monks t-shirt. I already have one of the #!/usr/bin/perl stickers from ThinkGeek on my car.