Calling 90s software development overly rigorous and academic is certainly an interesting take. It is also era where PHP and Perl ruled the world, and C was sti

Calling 90s software development overly rigorous and academic is certainly an interesting take. It is also era where PHP and Perl ruled the world, and C was still domain of cowboy coders instead of language lawyers. It's only in 00s when any sort of methodology (even if it's agile) starts to get wider recognition, and academic languages like Haskell spark interest. 00s was also the peak era for architecture astronauts, for example JavaEE and C++ Boost were almost completely a 00s products. The counterreaction for that was the rise of low ceremony stuff like Ruby on Rails, or html5 toning down w3cs overwrought stuff (xhtml), and now the pendulum has been swinging back with typescript or rust as examples