Somebody out there is going to do something that's far more surprising than anything that I would do. I was surprised by the whole web thing in the first place.

Doing linear scans over an associative array is like trying to club someone to death with a loaded Uzi.

So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.

Take Lisp, you know its the most beautiful language in the world -- at least up until Haskell came along.

The choice of approaches could be made the responsibility of the programmer.

I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?

Basically there's just so much stuff flowing past on the internet now, you have to let most of it go. And I've grown accustomed to the process of not worrying too much about the stuff I'm not getting to, because the important stuff will come back around.