What about writing it first and rationalizing it afterwards?

Think of prototypes as a funny markup language--the interpretation is left up to the rendering engine.

Life gets boring, someone invents another necessity, and once again we turn the crank on the screwjack of progress hoping that nobody gets screwed.

Guilty as charged. Perl is happily ugly, and happily derivative.

It should be illegal to yell 'Y2K' in a crowded economy.

Computer programming is really a lot like writing a recipe. If you've read a recipe, you know what the structure of a recipe is, it's got some things up at the top that are your ingredients, and below that, the directions for how to deal with those ingredients.

A Perl program is correct if it gets the job done before your boss fires you.