assa123

I wish this comment had more upvotes.

In the matter of reforming things, as distinct from deforming them, there is one plain and simple principle; a principle which will probably be called a paradox. There exists in such a case a certain institution or law; let us say, for the sake of simplicity, a fence or gate erected across a road. The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, “I don’t see the use of this; let us clear it away.” To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don’t see the use of it, I certainly won’t let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it.

However it is a one sided approach. Sometimes there must also be an answer to “If you don’t see the use of keeping it, I won’t let you”, e.g. radical mastectomy, conservatism.

and perl is orders of magnitude faster than python for document parsing

And there is so much knowledge deposited in reddit that it would be unwise to let its future on the hands of gold seekers. I wish we had more time for the backups, and that those that overwrote their posts and comments can share that lost info here.

Good ol’ emacs, relevant xkcd (although I don’t think there’s anyone that hasn’t seen it).