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Have you seen the mkdir world view? It's the one where all the code is spread out over as many directories as possible, and leaf directories typically have no siblings just yet and one child.
cons() { local newdir=cons_$((counter++)) local car=$1 local cdr=$2 mkdir $newdir ln -s $car $newdir/car ln -s $cdr $newdir/cdr }
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I completely agree with your comment but since we are on the topic of worldviews and assumptions I just want to point out that women program too. My assumption currently is that you do not switch pronouns arbitrarily and as a result were not just as likely to send "social circumstances may necessitate that she adopt a new viewpoint" when writing about an abstract individual programmer. I know it is annoying to have t…
My experience of writing that switches pronouns arbitrarily is that it continually draws attention to the ratio of men and women in programming, which makes the lack of women more obvious. I first noticed this in an advanced physics course where in deference to the presence of a lone woman in the course the professor consistently said "he or she". Except that it was a conscious attempt and served to draw attention ev…