When reading your article, I immediately thought back to Jamis Buck's repudiation of formal dependency injection in Ruby: http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2008/11/9/

When reading your article, I immediately thought back to Jamis Buck's repudiation of formal dependency injection in Ruby: http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2008/11/9/legos-play-doh-and-programming http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2008/11/9/legos-play-doh-and-pro... I'd be curious to hear your thoughts on that piece.