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In Defense of Joel's Wasabi Indirection Layer

I can't resist contributing my own modest viewpoint to the debate that has been sparked by a recent pair of posts ("Language Wars" and "Wasabi") by Joel Spolsky regarding his company's use of a proprietary, home-grown language called Wasabi to produce the company's FogBugz product. Joel in the same posts shared his view that Ruby is not up to full enterprise production snuff (my paraphrasing), which triggered defensive responses by Ruby on Rails founder David Hansson, "Fear, Uncertain, and Doubt by Joel Spolsky" (sic) and "Was Joel's Wasabi a joke?".

What's Behind Door #2?

This is my first blog entry. I don't claim to be an expert in anything, and I reserve the right to be wrong about everything.

I've been an internet developer for almost 9 years now, and most of that time I've spent in a Microsoft environment. Very briefly at the start of my career, I worked for an ISP writing an in-house accounting package to keep up with things like billing, subscribers, hosting, disk usage, etc. Since the user accounts were all on Sun UltraSPARC servers, I did some C programming on Solaris. Other than that, it's been Windows all the way.

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