On Sep 3, 2006, at 11:55 AM, James Britt wrote:

> Alex Young wrote:
>
>
>>  I'm inferring from the very little information that's out there  
>> that Wasabi has its own parser, and that makes it a very, very  
>> different beast to a DSL in the sense that I've come across the  
>> term in Ruby.
>
> Some Wasabi info:
>
> http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2006/09/01b.html
> http://programming.reddit.com/info/g0fa/comments

This was interesting reading.

I'm paraphrasing here but Spolsky's replies in the second link  
basically indicate that he trusts his team and likes to take a few  
risks.  I would say that's the reason to choose Ruby on Rails as an  
answer to the original article-provoking question.

James Edward Gray II