The motivation for this idea was to make it easier to rewrite everything else. > In 1997, I started in Perl. In 1998, I switched to PHP. In 2004, a rewrite in

The motivation for this idea was to make it easier to rewrite everything else. > In 1997, I started in Perl. In 1998, I switched to PHP. In 2004, a rewrite in Rails. In 2007, back to PHP. In 2009, minimalist Ruby. In 2012, client-side JavaScript.