Re: The benefits of pathological behaviour

[john1987]

A man of wisdom, a true monk. As you said in any langauge there are little things you don't notice. There are always those things. If there wasn't, most langauges would be pointless. In what you said before "The issue here is, when you stress something past it's intended limits, you often learn more than what the limit is, you learn why the limit is or that a huge bug exists." I agree with the "bug" part of it but the stress you got a little to carried away. When you stress over something you usually either break down and give up or get so pissed off at it that you throw it away. You should stress at anything, it's a bad way to function. But everything else you said was relativly good. Good job and I hope to see many more writings from you.

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My other writings.

[jeffa]

Um, no - you totally missed the context of the word
'stress.' extremely was not talking about limits of
a person's mental edurance, he was referring to
pushing the limits of Perl itself.

To give you an example of 'stress' in this context,
I will tell the story of the 'calculator stress test.'
In high school, my friend would take his calculator
and place it under one the feet of his chair. He would
then carefully shift his weight until a snap sound
was produced from the calculator. He would then see
what the effect was on his calculator. He would then
get his mom to by him a new calculator. My friend was
being a moron - but this should give you a clear example
of this particular use of the word 'stress.'

Now, as for your attitude towards dealing with personal
stress that arrises when your program don't work: take
a break, walk away, save and come back later. I've
gotten 'stressed out' many times, and anger only gets in
the way of progress during those situations. Go outside.
Get some exercise. Ride a bike.

Jeff

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[azatoth]

Hi there.

I admit I voted your node down, John, because I don't really see how it pertains to Perl itself.

A lot of your writings seem based mainly on conjectures to me, and I really don't agree with the "zealot" type advocacy of All Things Perl. The way I see it, Perl is a tool to be learned and then implemented as seen fit, but I really don't think anyone should be "evangelizing" something that at the end of the day is a Programming Language, albeit a very handy one.

I think you'll do a lot better in this community John if you tone it down a bit. I have looked through most of your posts, and I have a feeling people downvote you because of this fanatacism towards Perl. My advice (if you want to accept advice from a Scribe that is) would be to concentrate on the application of your beloved language in everyday scenarios, as opposed to waxing lyrical about its beauty to you.

Feel free to vote me down on this one folks, but i'm tired of seeing posts downvoted and not seeing any explanations.

Thanks and Best Regards,

Azatoth a.k.a Captain Whiplash

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