Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.

For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.

Computer programming is really a lot like writing a recipe. If you've read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is, it's got some things up at the top that are your ingredients, and below that, the directions for how to deal with those ingredients.

Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.

Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.

As someone pointed out, you could have an attribute that says 'optimize the heck out of this routine', and your definition of heck would be a parameter to the optimizer.

I wouldn't ever write the full sentence myself, but then, I never use goto either.