http://www.bernardbelanger.com/computing/NaDa/index.html
The nature of the Zen experience has, I think, not been applied with sufficient rigour [which of course begs the question whether "Zen" and "rigour" are at all compatible, in, say, the way in which "pasta" and "rigour" are compatible] to the computing world. Where, oh where, is the computing equivalent of Robert Pirseg's Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance?
If the answer to this is "We doan' need no steenkin' manuals" then I think, without let or hindrance, that the point I have been endeavouring to make here emerges from the foam of fractious disputation like the peak of Mount Fuji poking through the overcast on a sunny Friday morning.
Well, then, it may be objected, surely it is appropriate to request some automated aids towards this end. Surely it it, and just as shurely, Shirly, the download at this site will prove as elegant as it does functional in such realization.
Like the Big Red Button Which Does Nothing, you really have to see this for yourself. And that, or its converse, is the essence of the Zen experience, to the extent to which I can claim that the essence of the Zen experience can be understood.
Posted by jho at September 9, 2003 05:25 PM