fkrueger

I think this paragraph was very interesting:

> All through my life, I've always used the programming language that blended best with the debugging system and operating system that I'm using. If I had a better debugger for language X, and if X went well with the operating system, I would be using that.

I love Lisp, I love Python. But are their debugging tools and OS integration as good as .NET development or Java development?

"Like papers, programs can be over-polished. Rewriting code till it's perfect, making everything maximally abstract, writing macros and libraries, and playing with operating system internals has sucked many people out their theses and out of the field. (On the other hand, maybe that's what you really wanted to be doing for a living anyway.)"

Sounds like how I get "sucked out" of so many of my projects!

Quite well done! I'm very impressed.