The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
I don't believe I've ever cuddled my elses.
It's hard to tune heavily tuned code.
Just because you're into control doesn't mean you're in control.
This does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.
Historically speaking, the presence of wheels in Unix has never precluded their reinvention.