Re:Larry Wall on religion and Perl culture (1999)
by chromatic on Saturday February 12, 2011 @03:22AM
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even though some of his axioms derive purely from his faith in [tenets] with no evidence.
That reads to me like another a priori assumption.
Larry's one of the most humble people I've ever met--and one of the most startling. Just when you're sure you've finished thinking about something, he can come up with a different approach that works better (and is often a simpler synthesis of ideas I'd considered too far separate).
I wish I'd had the pleasure of being able to say the same thing about a George MacDonald or a G. K. Chesterton.
That reads to me like another a priori assumption.
Larry's one of the most humble people I've ever met--and one of the most startling. Just when you're sure you've finished thinking about something, he can come up with a different approach that works better (and is often a simpler synthesis of ideas I'd considered too far separate).
I wish I'd had the pleasure of being able to say the same thing about a George MacDonald or a G. K. Chesterton.