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In lieu of a dynamic language rant.

I always feel on the verge of a long, scathing rant about “enterprise” Java development and resistance to dynamic languages. I’ve been promising this to myself for a couple years now, but I never quite manage to write it. Not sure why, it’s not as if I’m not angry enough.

So in case you haven’t seen them, you should read Ryan Tomayko’s recent entry, IBM poop heads say LAMP users need to “grow up”, and Bill de hÓra’s No more nails: making good technology choices.

01 Jun 2005 comments off

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Activist Judges Indeed

My sister passed along this tidbit: an Indiana judge has ruled that two parents must not raise their child in their Wiccan religion, forbidding them from exposing the child to “non-mainstream religious beliefs and rituals,” out of apparent concern that it would confuse the poor kid, who attends a Catholic school.

So why not forbid him to attend the Catholic school?

That’ll be shot down. I’m appalled that it hasn’t already been.

Impressively, conservative Christian groups such as the American Family Association of Indiana have sided with the parents.

01 Jun 2005 comments off

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