drieux wrote:
> On Tuesday, June 4, 2002, at 09:19 , David T-G wrote:
> [..]
> > %
> > % Is there an official site dedicated to the True Cannons of Perl?
> >
> > Don't know about that, I'm afraid. I'd love to see some analysis of best
> > practices but,
> [..]
>
> I am intentionally avoiding fliptops remarks on the ground that
> i fear if I reference 'engineer' too close to 'software' I will
> be obliged to complain about the
>
> Harry Potter Syndrome
>
> namely that now that Harry Potter is off in school - will he
> come out as a traditional warlock - or will he become a 'warlock engineer'
> ,
> and/or become obliged to be a member of a professional 'warlock engineering
> association' as a part of the carRear development path. { not that
> I consider this a religious issue..... }
>
> but fliptop is also following down the expected line of 'best practices'
> and the general principles of good coding... which I support as part
> and parcel of beginner's mailing lists.
>
> I think what I am looking for is the function
>
> let f(x) be a boolean function that establishes
> whether or not topic x is a matter of 'religion'
> more than of 'best practices' and/or 'principle'
>
> and/or
>
> let g(x) be a function that returns the delta of x
> as a religious matter from principle, as opposed to the core
> component of x that is still within the scope
> of best practice ....
>
> eg:
>
> my ($delta_oh_x, @list_of_canon ) = g(x);
>
> such that we would do say
>
> my ($delta_oh_x, @list_of_canon ) = g(x) unless(f(x));
>
> hence we could sort order all of the questionable bits....
>
> ciao
> drieux
>
> ---
>
> for the apostate - 'canon' - with only one 'n' is the technical
> term deriving from greek denoting a bar or the measuring rod -
> hence - that which is 'canonical' ....
>
> 'true cannon' - with two 'n' in it - be, well, a rude way
> of denoting that the defense of the faith may be with artillery....
>
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do you work for the onion? if not, you should :)
oh sorry in perl..
job_hire(drieux,onion) unless job_works(drieux,onion);
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