Ruby on Rails chases simplicity in programming

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Yeah, well...

I have reviewed large portions of a 1,000,000 SLOC project that exclusively uses ESQL, but mostly limited to a data objects layer. It works, but is not the most efficient design for various reasons. Stored procedures were strictly forbidden on the project (not my decision, I came in to the project very late), exactly why I am not sure.
I'm not arguing with your point, just saying that it happens, (together with copying and pasting 5,000 lines of code:) probably a lot more than one might think.

On a separate topic, Ruby is more of a full-featured interpreted OO programming language than a scripting language, althought the distinction can be a rather fine one. I personally find much of Ruby to be very elegant, although my experiences with interpreted languages embedded into a larger environment (like a Web framework) has been less than happy, especially with the lack of a debugger. I also find that much more programmer discipline is needed when developing in languages without strong compile-time type checking (compile-time type checking helps to avoid some nasty run-time issues, such as when an object "does not understand" a method that is sent to it). These days, that seems to be asking for trouble, since programmer discipline sadly seems to be in short supply.

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