On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 12:33:42PM -0800, Jon Lang wrote:
: Let me see if I'm grasping the concept here: by default, all functions
: are British in the sense that they always do things the British way no
: matter where they are in the world:their behavior is determined by the
: culture in which they were raised. In contrast, lifted code "goes
: native" and does things according to the local culture and customs
: unless you explicitly tell it to do otherwise. Does this sound about
: right?
Yes, indeed. You will also find the idea of "functional equivalence"
running through some of the more enlightened literature of missiology.
As we were told in our training with Wycliffe, "Your job is *not*
to go out and build a little white church with a steeple."
Given the influence of linguistics and anthropology on Perl, your
cultural metaphor is not just an accidental resemblance. :)
Larry
