Hate to be mean, but this is just waxing poetic over the basics. Author is comparing syntax, froth; no actual productive parts of web development is discussed.

Hate to be mean, but this is just waxing poetic over the basics. Author is comparing syntax, froth; no actual productive parts of web development is discussed. I have written web apps in Common Lisp for 2-3 years, and in Java (with Play! Framework) for a year now: routes, templates and form submission are the most standardized parts of all framworks. My Lisp code to do those things is identical to the way it's done in Java. If you want to compare web frameworks start by comparing their database & Model substrates: ORM, migrations, validation .. those are where you will become unstuck. (if you don't consider those an integral part of the web-framework, then we haven nothing to discuss, pedal your big-wheel away)