Comment Re:Bah, Scripting languages (Score 1) 193
"Many languages, one interpreter."
Right, but that happens to be one very large and bloated interpreter for a bunch of languages that only work on proprietary systems with proprietary applications.
Agile developers know that flexibility can be one of his or her greatest assets. Who cares if a few more frameworks need to be installed, as long as the final product is actually useful and can be installed on any Windows or un*x environment (and in some cases, such as certain ruby on rails developments, in much less time)?
Right, but that happens to be one very large and bloated interpreter for a bunch of languages that only work on proprietary systems with proprietary applications.
Agile developers know that flexibility can be one of his or her greatest assets. Who cares if a few more frameworks need to be installed, as long as the final product is actually useful and can be installed on any Windows or un*x environment (and in some cases, such as certain ruby on rails developments, in much less time)?
