The problems that I really like to solve are our cultural problems.
Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed.
The choice of approaches could be made the responsibility of the programmer.
Laziness is a programmers main virtue.
Although the Perl Slogan is There's More Than One Way to Do It, I hesitate to make 10 ways to do something.
Maybe we should take a clue from FTP and put in an option like 'print hash marks on every 1024 iterations'.