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Between your first and last statement there is an entirely reasonable middle ground that you've chosen to ignore

Thats a good point, however, you wouldn't say "Bob can be honest, but at least he's blunt" which is I think more faithful to the initial quote. But point taken.

I'm a bit confused by your use of 'pithy, but at least its terse'. Don't pithy and terse mostly mean similar things? Here it seems like you're contrasting them. Not trying to be pedantic, apologies if it comes off that way.

Not yet, I will update you when I do.

Ah - wonderful. Thanks

Is the title "The Green Side of the Lua" a pun/parodic allusion to something?

I have been compiling a list of papers that have titles with this kind of style.

First time I've heard Redmond used as a metonym for Microsoft

Not sure if this is what you mean, but 'inductive logic programming' and more generally 'program synthesis' are fairly active research areas.