> Can we please stop legitimizing Rails's whimsical aesthetic choices by pretending that they have something to do with an academically-justified architecture, and just accept that they're just another way of ripping your denim and then safety-pinning it closed, by which you demonstrate that you're not a square and you don't write Java.
Please don't. Snark like this is good for starting technical flamewars but it invariably lowers the quality of the discussion.
Even though you're right this line almost made it all worth it in terms of comedic value: "...accept that they're just another way of ripping your denim and then safety-pinning it closed, by which you demonstrate that you're not a square and you don't write Java."
Please don't. Snark like this is good for starting technical flamewars but it invariably lowers the quality of the discussion.