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.

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.

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

I take time to watch anime. I don't know whether I'm allowed to, but I do it anyway.

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

Perl doesn't have an infatuation with enforced privacy. It would prefer that you stayed out of its living room because you weren't invited, not because it has a shotgun

Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.