My first goal with a challenge at the office is "make the problem smaller". Now I have a folder of little one-offs and REPL scraps. A triumph of tactics over s

My first goal with a challenge at the office is "make the problem smaller". Now I have a folder of little one-offs and REPL scraps. A triumph of tactics over strategy that defies passing on to anyone who didn't author it. Looking at the JVM and JSON, I wonder to what degree that languages contribute some piece of goodness or idea toward some final Tool To Rule Them All...