To those who don't see the point of this, I would place it in the context of a larger move towards code "babel" (for lack of a better term), i.e., a unified int

To those who don't see the point of this, I would place it in the context of a larger move towards code "babel" (for lack of a better term), i.e., a unified interface for common abstractions. Imagine that (as Steve Yegge suggests) the tooling available for statically-typed langauges will eventually come to dynamic languages as well (think CEDET). It reminds me of the fact that most web server platforms still focus on emitting text instead of manipulating a DOM. That will change. What I don't understand is why I need cookies enabled in Firefox to view the post. This is obviously a Blogger issue, as I've seen those little gears many times before. I can't imagine the great Rich Hickey intends it.