> To me, it seems a bit like JSPs of 15 years ago, with all the logic in the presentation code, > but I'm "old", so I assume I just don't "get it". He seems t

> To me, it seems a bit like JSPs of 15 years ago, with all the logic in the presentation code, > but I'm "old", so I assume I just don't "get it". He seems to ignore that his experience just paid off. It is not that his knowledge of JSP is out of date and not useful, it is that back in the day he learned the anti-pattern and can apply that now. Programming has the same long term advantages as any profession. Most of what I know after 20-some years is not any specific tech, but ways of doing things, recognizing good and bad habits, patterns, etc. The specific techs come and go, but the real knowledge transcends them all and builds on itself. His 3 stages graph shouldn't logarithmic but exponential.