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.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can put off till the day after tomorrow. Like a variant of the song, Tomorrow, only it's more of the idea, the Mexican idea of mañana, you know, [singing] mañana, mañana, I love you, mañana, you're always a day away.

As a linguist, I don't think of Ada as a big language. Now, English and Japanese, those are big languages. Ada is just a medium-sized language.

That being said, I think we should immediately deprecate any string concatenation that combines '19' with '99'.

Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.

But you have to allow a little for the desire to evangelize when you think you have good news.

I note that the Python folks still think they like JPython. I wonder how long that will last?