To paren, or not to paren: that is the question:
Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The bugs and errors of maintenance programs,
Or to take arms against a host of typos,
And by debugging end them? To hack: to slash;
No more; and by a slash to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
Of cut and paste code, ’tis a maturation
Devoutly to be wished. To hack, not slash;
Not slash: perchance to code: ay, there’s the rub;
For in that new programme what code may come
When we have shuffled off this unix box,
Must give us pause: there’s the respect
That makes wuffy of so long life;
— Not William Shakespeare
The preceeding doggerel is excerpted from To Paren, or not to Paren
