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

What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against?

I think operating systems work best if they're free and open. Particular applications are more likely to be proprietary.

Part of language design is perturbing the proposed feature in various directions to see how it might generalize in the future.

I think it's a new feature. Don't tell anyone it was an accident.

I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.

The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.