A programmer's dilemma II

The first post resonated with me - spot on I thought and emailed the link to anyone I thought would feel the same.

I don't think we should be surprised that some folks did not understand the point being made - 'twas ever thus.

I also feel that the "meme" captured here resonated nicely with Dave Winer's post http://www.scripting.com/stories/2008/12/04/soonItWillBeTime... and with John Resig's http://ejohn.org/blog/javascript-language-abstractions/ . The abstractions are so leaky that they become the problem - no longer helping us get things done but actively (? passively) conspiring to stop us.

Thank you for this. I've had some experience as a noob being thrown into a web app project and it really is a massive headache keeping three languages under control at once.

There needs to be some kind of complete language solution for these types of things. HTML has run it's course.

PII circa 1991? Um, what? Does he mean 2001?