If things had gone differently, I might’ve actually become a computer programmer. Although it’s questionable as to whether I would’ve survived such a decision.

So I’ve been looking at the landscape from afar.

Larry Wall discusses what’s coming up with Perl 6, and his thoughts about the course of evolution of computer languages. I never realized that Wall was a linguist, but it makes a lot of sense. Perl preserves a lot of the human language aspect of Lisp, and the way he looks at the goal of the compiler or interpreter is where my own thoughts are probably leading.

Zed Shaw burns the bridge behind him as he kicks the dust off his feet and says “fuck you” to the Rails Community. So I guess I wasn’t just imagining that Rails was unstable as hell, and almost unrunnable. Shaw hints that the future of Ruby frameworks is probably going to be Merb. Not that Rails is dead or anything, though.

It’s also not just me that thinks that PHP is not exactly elegant. But we all know that it’s usually not superior technology that dominates the industry. Hence, VHS vs Beta, Windows vs Mac OS, etc., etc.