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Turtles all the way down and the CLR (or JVM)

Avi makes some comments here about the differences between scripting languages and “real” languages. His main point is that real languages (or maybe their VM’s) are fast enough to be extended in themselves. Now while I think I understand his underlying point - which is to attempt to clarify why smalltalk rocks (which it [...]

Rails as the Visual Basic of the Web

A couple of things have got me thinking along these lines recently.

Giles Bowkett made an interesting post on his blog:
“[T]his has always been my fear for Rails; that in five to ten years, the worst jobs you could get will be Rails jobs where you’re maintaining stuff built by non-programmers who figured Rails made programming [...]