That’s doodoo, baby.
This was a really great lesscode.org piece by Aristotle. The follow-up discussion in the comments was superb as well. Being in the middle of everything really warped my view of what was going on back then, I think.
chromatic on million-line Java programs: “I can only imagine how much larger the Java code would be without all of those XML files.”
No, but seriously, the only reason we're not all using Perl for web development is because all the problems are already solved … and have been since around 1995 or so. (See Also: mod_perl, libwww-perl, Fielding et al.)
“maybe try coding something in c”
Brilliant!
“I could whip you up something in Java that would take 2 minutes to design, 30 minutes to implement, a day to write the deployment descriptor for, and 3 months to get sign off from the app support people at the client site _b”
the best shit ever