Even if you aren't in doubt, consider the mental welfare of the person who has to maintain the code after you, and who will probably put parens in the wrong place.

Reserve your abuse for your true friends.

And I don't like doing silly things (except on purpose).

It's there as a sop to former Ada programmers.

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

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.

Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.