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The originals - http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/koans.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/koans.html See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_koan https://en.
by mey 13y ago
The originals - http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/koans.html http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/koans.html
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_koan https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hacker_koan
- StefanKarpinski 13y agoI have to say that I like this koan quite a bit more than the original programmer koans, which have always struck me as disappointingly shallow and rather more like knock-knock jokes.
- emilyst 13y agoThey are jokes.
- StefanKarpinski 13y agoReal koans often have a joke-like quality to them as well – both jokes and koans tend to entail a sudden shift of perspective – but the original programmer koans have no element of enlightenment.