I'm afraid my gut level reaction is basically, proceed is cute, but cute doesn't cut it in the emergency room.

"Lurking" is one metaphor that the Omniscience has allowed us to borrow.

It's appositival, if it's there. And it doesn't have to be there. And it's really obvious that it's there when it's there.

Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.

All language designers are arrogant. Goes with the territory.

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

I'm a great believer in visual distinctions.