... it still seems funny to me that the greatest (er, most overtly visible) example of a language's superiority is how well it works as... an angle-bracket gene

... it still seems funny to me that the greatest (er, most overtly visible) example of a language's superiority is how well it works as... an angle-bracket generator. Calling web development "angle-bracket generation" is like calling Shakespeare "a guy who drew letters on paper". Walt Whitman and Tolkien and Neal Stephenson and Abe Lincoln and Plato didn't even have to generate angle brackets. They got away with plain text! And yet their job was no easier. Of course, Hanselman was joking, and the joke was even funny. I think that ABG would be a nice name for a web framework.