> If these programmers spent half as much time coding as they did bitching about their and others' programming environments, I think they'd get a lot more work

> If these programmers spent half as much time coding as they did bitching about their and others' programming environments, I think they'd get a lot more work done. Not to mention, be happier with life. Without this "bitching about their and others' programming environments" we'd still be using punch cards. The author indeed does not contribute anything "new", but it's still pretty well written and to readers who are at a similar stage in their education/maturing in a more modern time it does a pretty great job of introducing concepts the typical ruby-only developer might not be familiar with. I could have written a very similar article 15 years ago from a perspective of a black belt perl developer who found lisp to realize that his code already was lisp. Just in perl. Would it help a 25 year old other version of me today? No. Because he'd probably be proficient in ruby and not in perl. Nobody under 35 understands rants about lwp or Moose anymore and thus does not even have a chance of getting the point without lengthy research.