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Sean McGrath makes a comment on the wisdom of using static languages in middleware:
My position on this is simple. Anyone coding middleware in a statically compiled language, working in a commercial environment where time is money, has rocks in their head.
Clearly, I agree with that. How do Java folks update their servers without taking them down and up? How do C# developers? In Smalltalk, I do this all the time, and as a result, my servers tend to run 24x7x365. Yes, I test things out locally before I upload them :)
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