Java Zen:Thinking Out Loud Wednesday, 2025.04.23
To write good software you must simultaneously keep two opposing ideas in your
head. You need the young hacker's naive faith in his abilities, and at the same
time the veteran's skepticism. You have to be able to think "how hard can it
be?" with one half of your brain while thinking "it will never work" with the
other.

		Paul Graham, "Hackers & Painters"

2001.05.04

Do you know where your pets are?

[Ed. Apologies for the absence – extreme deadlines and such. A quick hit for today. This caught my funny bone given that I’ve been learning a programming language named after the punch line in today’s snippet.]

A little girl goes into a pet shop and asks for a “wabbit”. The shop keeper looks down at her, smiles and says “Would you like a lovely fluffy little white wabbit, or a cutesy wootesly little brown wabbit?”

“Actually”, says the little girl, “I don’t think my python would notice”


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