The apprentice went to Zen masters and said:
"I've tried to write my programs with that language. There's a lot of syntactic sugar, a lot of different idioms. Dialects do exist in natural languages, not in artificial languages. I think I'll come back to the linguistic purity of Blaise!".
The Zen master said "Look at seashells. Impurities generate perls".
And the apprentice gained enlightenment.
"I've tried to write my programs with that language. There's a lot of syntactic sugar, a lot of different idioms. Dialects do exist in natural languages, not in artificial languages. I think I'll come back to the linguistic purity of Blaise!".
The Zen master said "Look at seashells. Impurities generate perls".
And the apprentice gained enlightenment.
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RE (tilly) 1: Zen
by tilly (Archbishop) on Sep 18, 2000 at 18:53 UTC | |
by larsen (Parson) on Sep 18, 2000 at 19:33 UTC | |
RE: Zen (j/k)
by extremely (Priest) on Sep 19, 2000 at 06:00 UTC | |
by TStanley (Canon) on Sep 22, 2000 at 07:05 UTC | |
RE: Zen
by t0mas (Priest) on Sep 21, 2000 at 12:41 UTC |
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