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Joe "be consistent"  Re: Favorite Weapons  by mstone (Deacon) on
May 31, 2002 at 02:40 UTC ( #170600=note: print w/ replies,
xml ) Need Help??  in reply to Favorite Weapons  Erm, let's look
at that statement in its original context..  Musashi was a
swordsman -- a warrior. His job was to kill other people before
they killed him. And like any decent military strategist, he
knew he'd have a much better chance of doing that if his
opponents couldn't predict his moves well enough to put a sword
right where he was about to duck.  (And speaking of ducks, we
fossils who grew up with Daffy Duck cartoons will remember
Daffy's immortal performance as Robin Hood: "Ho! Haha! Guard!
Turn! Parry! Dodge! Spin! Thrust!", and what happened when Porky
caught him at "Spin!" the second time around)  But since when is
programming a mutually-antagonistic field?  Sure, there are some
good, direct corollaries to Musashi's admonition in areas like
cryptography: don't use a