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.

I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.

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

When in doubt, parenthesize. At the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi.

I take time to watch anime. I don't know whether I'm allowed to, but I do it anyway.

Take Lisp, you know its the most beautiful language in the world -- at least up until Haskell came along.

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