building walls around the immaturity of specific interpreters That sounds like a good definition of scripting. At least that's what it always feels like to me

building walls around the immaturity of specific interpreters That sounds like a good definition of scripting. At least that's what it always feels like to me when for one reason or another I have to implement more than I really want to in an environment lacking a set of abstractions or tools necessary for an elegent solution.