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Being an old VMS fan, I always liked DD-MMM-YYYY (e.g. 29-Jul-2011). At least it eliminates the month day ambiguity which sometimes confuses me.

I see he favored ALGOL-60, so maybe Pascal, Modula, Ada ...

Dijkstra (in 1975) strongly dislikes FORTRAN, BASIC, APL, PL/I, and COBOL. What languages did he like? Pascal?

Sorry, I see a lot of people don't care for Dvorak, I probably should have put his name in the title. I do think he occasionally has something interesting to say. Simple, clean, fast is why I've used Google and I think that is primarily what has made them a success. If they complicate their applications, will that be a detriment to their business? That's an important question.

I don't know if it will bring on ruin, but I certainly found the old image search much more friendly and usable. Both this and page preview seems like "another useless feature that someone thinks improves the experience when it does nothing but show off the fact that someone can code JavaScript or some other display manipulation language." Clean and fast wins the day with me ... Duck Duck Go?

"Why keep trying to cram an expressive syntax into the straitjacket of the 95 glyphs of ASCII when Unicode has been the new black for most of the past decade?"

Because it is simple and everyone can read it. I don't want to see code that is "greek to me."

Hydrogen is lighter than helium and will always be cheap and plentiful. Helium does have the advantage of being inert.