The Codeless Code: Case 4 Willows（细柳）

A new priest of the Spider Clan was lamenting the poor quality of the Javascript code produced by his novices.

蜘蛛家族的一个新牧师正在为一个新手们写出来的质量很差的Javacript代码感到很悲伤。

“I will investigate,” said the Java master.

Java大师说：“我会调查清楚的”

After visiting the novices, the master decreed that the first four be struck sharply across the knuckles each morning before their hands were allowed to touch their keyboards. For the fifth novice, he prescribed no action. The priest asked the master why this was so.

在见过这些新手们后，大师就规定前四个新手每天早晨在他们被允许敲击键盘之前都要接受指关节被狠狠的敲击的惩罚。而对于第五个人新手，大师却没有让他接受任何惩罚，新牧师就去问大师这么做的原因。

“The sapling, if tended, may become the willow; but not so the blade of grass,” said the master.

大师回答说：“小树如果被修的太很了，长大了就可能变成随风都要弯腰的柳树，而不会变成有自己棱角的小草”

Hearing this, the priest ordered the fifth novice to be let go.

听了大师这么说，牧师就把第五个新手给赶走了。

To his surprise this angered the Java master greatly, and the priest himself was cast out. On his final pay stub, the master wrote the following:

令牧师吃惊的是，Java大师对牧师的做法非常生气，甚至还把牧师也给赶走了！在牧师的最后的支付存单上，大师这样写道：

We cannot lie across a thousand willows and contemplate the sunrise.

纵使有柳条一千棵，我们也不能指望横卧在它们身上去看日出（我们不能横卧在千柳而观日出）。