The camel has evolved to be relatively self-sufficient. On the other hand, the camel has not evolved to smell good. Neither has Perl.

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

Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them.

This does not mean that some of us should not want, in a rather dispassionate sort of way, to put a bullet through csh's head.

Don't wear rollerskates to a tug-of-war.

We don't have enough parallel universes to allow all uses of all junction types - in the absence of quantum computing the combinatorics are not in our favor.

The choice of approaches could be made the responsibility of the programmer.