These knives all have handles The first time I was in a programming debate that used the argument “I want a sharp knife”, my friend was arguing that real programmers wrote C and accessed memory directly. I was arguing for Java as the easier, if less flexible, solution. One generation’s sharp knife is the next generation’s whirling machete blade. The phrase “sharp knife” has been bouncing through the Rails community the last day or so. I don’t really want to talk about the lates...
