The purpose of most computer languages is to lengthen your resume by a word and a comma.

You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns?

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.

Well, hey, let's just make everything into a closure, and then we'll have our general garbage collector, installed by 'use less memory'.

Obviously I was either onto something, or on 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.

It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.