i know, right! ;) but seriously, who would make technology choices based on that reasoning? the thing should have it's merits, preferably for non-shitty softwa

i know, right! ;) but seriously, who would make technology choices based on that reasoning? the thing should have it's merits, preferably for non-shitty software too. so it's not that i agree with everything the author said, i just think your rebuttal is not very good. where were your arguments anyway? to me, if it's shit, it's shit. but i do prefer shit of the "strongly typed" flavour. when dealing with shit, i'll take any automated help i can get. but even there, of course, we can talk about trade-offs, and not absolute truths.