The prevailing popularity of VM-based object-oriented systems these days, especially ones with huge memory requirements running on big servers, makes me wonder why there isn't more research like this going on →

Rails may be wonderful. It may make me significantly more efficient than I would be coding in Webwork. and Java. But I can categorically say that Rails is not going to make me ten times more efficient. →

Well, you have to put these things into context. This is the first time in two years of being in this apartment that my oven has been used to do anything more complicated than reheat pizza. The only other time I've cooked anything in the last year was after my girlfriend issued me an ultimatum. →

...or "Who needs creativity when we've got a catch-phrase?" →