Awesome. Should have submitted it, but maybe you were being true to Perl by being "Lazy"?:)
I only had a few hours to learn how to write haikus and submit mine (feedback welcome! http://abuzar.com). I read a paper by Sharon Hopkins saying that haikus have a reference to weather, so maybe you want to include that in your haikus? Then again, I like your writing the way it is and I'm not really sure how important the reference to weather is:)
Wow, that's me! Looks like I really did submit the most [15]! My very first haikus:)
People, please give me constructive feedback, I've posted my entries at: http://abuzar.com
Also, I'm looking for geek girls for a Toronto-based women and trans reading/art event. Come read/perform about Perl/Linux/Free Technology at Pussy Pen: http://pussypen.org
Rape and programming in Java are among the 2 bad experiences I've had to go through in life. Java was worse. I just wish no other human has to go through this, and I realize the horrific reality that many do.
I spent 2 years learning and programming in Java. I truly gave it my best. I even used to have Java paraphernalia from the JavaOne conferences. However, I was unable to complete any project (all faif) close to on time, or bearing any reasonable functionality that was promised repeatedly by it's marketing and evangelism outlets. It was always about pounding one way of thinking into me, and endless (endless!) literature to go through, most of which was rife with marketing and long droning tutoring methods.
My desire to use programming as a way of building ideas, structures, and concepts, through innovative forms of expressions was always stunted. My applications were never even close to on time, nor functional to my satisfaction. More importantly, the programming methods I was locked in were nerve racking.
If things didn't work out the way I wanted, it was said to be all my fault: I was doing something "wrong", I wasn't good enough. OO was the only way to go. I was made to feel like I was stupid or something. It was like any innovative form of thought or method was outright blasphemy against Java and I deserved whatever bad happened for not sticking by their rules. Most of these tactics are also used by rapists.
When I turned to faif technologies like PHP, Python, and Perl amongst others, I realized what a scam I had been caught in for so long. This is where I learned that "There is more than one way to do it" from Perl [and it's become my major language since, but not my only language!]. Free technology was where I learnt that multiple ways and creative methods of expressing yourself were not only admirable traits to have, but also valuable traits that contributed to the evolution of building stable and efficient structures that are highly usable by humans.
Having said that, even the free tech cultures do need to be heavily revamped to be welcoming of the diversity that large numbers of people, all coming from different perspectives bring, while equalizing social and technological power dynamics.
What disturbs me about this article is that by not acknowledging the path carved by free technology, they are essentially stealing ideas from the public domain, repackaging it in different terms, and using it to promote their oppressive technology.
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"no" is the opposite of use in that it unimports the meaning of anything exported by use. It also has the same prototype:
./haiku.pl line 3.
no Module VERSION LIST
so it can basically take any number of parameters without complaining.
Now, when I run the haiku, I get this error message, so technically it would seem that it isn't a valid program:
Undefined format "haiku" called at
Awesome. Should have submitted it, but maybe you were being true to Perl by being "Lazy"? :)
:)
I only had a few hours to learn how to write haikus and submit mine (feedback welcome! http://abuzar.com). I read a paper by Sharon Hopkins saying that haikus have a reference to weather, so maybe you want to include that in your haikus? Then again, I like your writing the way it is and I'm not really sure how important the reference to weather is
Wow, that's me! Looks like I really did submit the most [15]! My very first haikus :)
People, please give me constructive feedback, I've posted my entries at: http://abuzar.com
Also, I'm looking for geek girls for a Toronto-based women and trans reading/art event. Come read/perform about Perl/Linux/Free Technology at Pussy Pen: http://pussypen.org
Rape and programming in Java are among the 2 bad experiences I've had to go through in life. Java was worse. I just wish no other human has to go through this, and I realize the horrific reality that many do.
I spent 2 years learning and programming in Java. I truly gave it my best. I even used to have Java paraphernalia from the JavaOne conferences. However, I was unable to complete any project (all faif) close to on time, or bearing any reasonable functionality that was promised repeatedly by it's marketing and evangelism outlets. It was always about pounding one way of thinking into me, and endless (endless!) literature to go through, most of which was rife with marketing and long droning tutoring methods.
My desire to use programming as a way of building ideas, structures, and concepts, through innovative forms of expressions was always stunted. My applications were never even close to on time, nor functional to my satisfaction. More importantly, the programming methods I was locked in were nerve racking.
If things didn't work out the way I wanted, it was said to be all my fault: I was doing something "wrong", I wasn't good enough. OO was the only way to go. I was made to feel like I was stupid or something. It was like any innovative form of thought or method was outright blasphemy against Java and I deserved whatever bad happened for not sticking by their rules. Most of these tactics are also used by rapists.
When I turned to faif technologies like PHP, Python, and Perl amongst others, I realized what a scam I had been caught in for so long. This is where I learned that "There is more than one way to do it" from Perl [and it's become my major language since, but not my only language!]. Free technology was where I learnt that multiple ways and creative methods of expressing yourself were not only admirable traits to have, but also valuable traits that contributed to the evolution of building stable and efficient structures that are highly usable by humans.
Having said that, even the free tech cultures do need to be heavily revamped to be welcoming of the diversity that large numbers of people, all coming from different perspectives bring, while equalizing social and technological power dynamics.
What disturbs me about this article is that by not acknowledging the path carved by free technology, they are essentially stealing ideas from the public domain, repackaging it in different terms, and using it to promote their oppressive technology.
Another mirror! http://abuzar.com/sco/Doc-100-A.pdf