To do something right, you have to do it twice. Never in history has someone's first whack been Good Code. That's why compiling the first time is suspicious. Anything complex enough to celebrate is difficult to keep in your head all at once, and finding a simple alternative is only satisfying if it's worked down from something merely okay.

Having a machine that spits out something merely okay sounds conducive to the goals of this back-in-my-day rant.