Programmer migration patterns - I enjoyed reading this piece a lot more than I thought I would, the author somehow manages to buzz from place to place with rather elegant ease, dropping in just at the right moment, in the right place, with the right amount of words, neatly avoiding hazardous dead ends and dangerous cliff edges - Overall you get a pretty good view of one person's prespective of how things have been for the past few decades in programming without getting bogged down, and you come away with a rather clear structure for thinking about all the various languages, yet at the same time an appreciation that a lot of things have past, a lot of water has run under a lot of bridgesapenwarr.ca #