You don't have to know the whole language to use it usefully, you can do baby talk, you can do grown up talk, you can cuss in it, you can write poetry, you can be a playwright, is sort of the idea.

So please don't think I have a 'down' on the MVS people. I'm just pulling off their arms to beat other people over the head with.

Perl is worse than Python because people wanted it worse.

Even if you aren't in doubt, consider the mental welfare of the person who has to maintain the code after you, and who will probably put parens in the wrong place.

The potential of greater good goes right along with the potential for greater evil.

In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.

For the sake of argument I'll ignore all your fighting words.