What I was going to say here before my post got lost was that a perl nun is not a good thing. Nuns are traditionally only minimally educated (enough to read the liturgy) while monks are very scholarly, so a perl nun would be a person who was enthusiastic about Perl without knowing anything about - a sysadmin maybe? (heh heh)
So a skilled perl coder who happens to be a woman ought to be a monk too.
Am I being too picky? I consider myself a monk, even though I voted for "nun"
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> Nuns are traditionally only minimally educated
> (enough to read the liturgy) while monks are very
> scholarly
Depends on the tradition you're looking at, and the era.
There is strong evidence to indicate, for instance, that
in the (mostly illiterate) Merovingian era, Christian
nuns learned Latin, copied books, and even wrote.
Check out
Hildegaard of Bingen, a somewhat later luminary.
Bein' a nun ain't no shame.
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mm.. a bit late reply about perl-nun, but please don't forget all the nuns who teach in schools and run the schools! I assume that most of them had/have more than minimal education
--postulant perl-nun
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I dont know. You make a good point, but still I'm not a "Brether".
Also, let me point out that "Sophie" (ie. Wisdom) was female.
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Don't be teasing the people with root- sysadmins are, as a
rule, a grumpy lot and tend to react badly to being teased
( a la Simon ).
:)
Mik
- a recovered sysadmin
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You make a strong case, but I'm still not gonna shave the top of my head!
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of course just to be diffrent i had to other
heheheheheheheheh
thiabout it my name is tekno-BOY ("though i were a girle
just my dear papa" monty pythons)
just kidding buh bye
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