Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is paved with melting snowballs. - Larry Wall

And C was good at something I like to call manipulexity, that is the manipulation of complex things. While shell was good at something else which I call whipuptitude, the aptitude for whipping things up.

The random quantum fluctuations of my brain are historical accidents that happen to have decided that the concepts of dynamic scoping and lexical scoping are orthogonal and should remain that way.

No comment, since this is still hovering (see Larry's reply). Flutter, flutter.