I procrastinate, but mostly because there's always too many things to do, and I got the stew in my mind that things do bubble up, so I'll throw things in there and let them stew around. It's sort of like greasing the squeaky wheels in my own brain.

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

Symmetry is overrated. Overrated is symmetry.

The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything before you can do anything.

Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.

Easy things should be easy, and hard things should be possible.

Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.