I'm a great believer in visual distinctions.
The Harvard Law states: Under controlled conditions of light, temperature, humidity, and nutrition, the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
A Perl program is correct if it gets the job done before your boss fires you.
I just hope I'm never promoted to the level of my incontinence.
I still drive my 1977 Honda Accord. The paint is almost all worn off. It's still running.
The problem with using C++ ... is that there's already a strong tendency in the language to require you to know everything before you can do anything.