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

The way I see it, if you declare something portable, you'll always be wrong, and if you declare it non-portable, you'll always be right.

Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed.

The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.

Odd that we think definitions are definitive.

The only reason [not to use] perl is that some sysadmins don't allow software that they didn't pay for. By all means, let them send me money if it makes them feel better.

Wow, I'm being shot at from both sides. That means I *must* be right.