I Fought the Law

"implementations should follow a general principle of robustness: be conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from others" - Jon Postel, https://doi.org/10.17487/RFC0761, see also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robustness_principle
`.split()`s on strings and `filter`s on `None`
I fought the Law and the Law won
I fought the Law and the Law won
I needed spec compliance; I got none
I fought the Law and the Law won
I fought the Law and the Law won

I varied my output with the latest fad
Breakin' every downstream run
Needed Postel more than I ever had
I fought the Law and the Law won
I fought the Law and the

Scatterin' parsing like a shotgun
I fought the Law and the Law won
I fought the Law and the Law won
I lost robustness and I lost my fun
I fought the Law and the Law won
I fought the Law and the Law won

I varied my output with the latest fad
Breakin' every downstream run
Needed Postel more than I ever had
I fought the Law and the Law won
I fought the Law and the