Not that it really matters, but since I'm the one who brought it up and your gut was telling you that I'm not likely familiar with compiled languages - I starte

Not that it really matters, but since I'm the one who brought it up and your gut was telling you that I'm not likely familiar with compiled languages - I started programming in Pascal and Assembly in the 80's, moved onto Java and C# and lately I spend a lot of my time writing Objective C code. It'll be no skin off my nose if the web turns into a compiled protocol. I don't know if it's even necessary to continue with plain text web sites these days. But, it most certainly was a major deal initially for me to just "view source" and see that it wasn't a black box of voodoo. The low barrier to entry is one of the major reasons the web took off. I'll admit I'm an old timer in this business, probably ready to be taken out back and shot! So I have no idea if you youngsters were similarly inspired by viewing the source code on a web site? Maybe with all of the complex client side code and minimized scripts that it isn't even relevant anymore? It probably just looks like gobbledygook to a non-programmer these days.