Persons attempting to find a "text" in this [story] will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a "subtext" in it will be banished; persons attempting to explain, interpret, explicate, analyze, deconstruct, or otherwise "understand" it will be exiled to a desert island in the company only of other explainers.
BY ORDER OF THE AUTHOR - Wendell Berry's introduction to Jayber Crow.
This article was posted to Jayber on 15 April 2008 by to the following categories: Residuals.
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My professor continues to keep the compiler-theory zingers coming. Today, he rattled off another set that had me laughing quietly.
Fortran is structurally deficient. It's really a shame that people use it.
Zing!
Algol is the father of all sensible languages we have today. And then, there's C...
Bwa!