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.

You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?

If you and I always agree, then one of us is redundant.

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?

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

I'm just paid to do whatever I want to do. Some of the time it's development, and some of the time it's just goofing off.

Human languages tend to be much more ambiguous than computer languages because humans are much smarter about interpreting the context.