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That's it, I give up. No more dynamic languages for me anymore! This whole idea of just creating a file and handing it to an interpreter to "assemble" for me. What of my memory management? What of my detailed traceability with gdb? Don't get me started with this whole "metaprogramming" and "DSL" garbage everyone keeps talking about. Who needs magic like that. That's just what it is. Magic voodoo that no one can understand. Seriously, WTF?

I for one am going back to programming in C where I can get all the control I need with the comfort of my precious gcc. I mean come on, why did I waste so much time learning C and make and all the other great tools associated just to dump them for some new craze. Hey Ruby guys, can you tell me what memory address your "object" sits at and how many pages it takes up? Yeah, thought so. I don't need people to collect and take out my trash, I can manage it myself thank you. You dynamic / interpreted language snobs really aren't much on memory hygiene. The funny thing is you refer to the C and UNIX geeks as the long haired, neck bearded dirty hippies and you are the ones who are all like "Ooohh our objects can be anything and respond to anyone" and "You don't need to program that, we can just meta eval it". Your free object love disgusts me.

So I am going to hole up with C, assembler, and edlin so I can once again be happy and comfortable with my programming.