My buddy Mike left a comment on one of my previous posts, UNIX vs. the Web . I'm going to quote the whole thing: It's hopeless. It's too easy to throw something together, which "sortta" works, but has no conceptual integrity. I think another problem is that Open Sores software is, by definition, AT BEST, a Beta, more typically an Alpha. So, it should not be surprising if the quality is, ahh, not as high as it might be. Like most stuff that gets buzz, Django "sortta" works. Works well enough that it has a user base. I keep waiting for the Grand Unification of Pylons and Gears - maybe soon enough... In the meantime, as I suffer with JavaScript, CSS, DHTML, the DOM, XML, and all that _shit_ - well, I'm ready to have heated discussions with every Netscape employee who had anything to do with this disaster. I'm tempted to blame the Stanfords, CMUs, and MITs for this current mess, because they didn't step up and produce leadership - (CLEARLY