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		btilly on Jan 2, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Process Myth The additional perverse incentive is to extend the rule by banning all languages that do not have an equivalent compilation step. Which means that scripting languages are not available.

SoftwareMaven on Jan 2, 2013 [–]

You can extend anything to an absurd degree. That does not make it a strong argument.

btilly on Jan 2, 2013 | [–]

What makes you think that extension is absurd? I based that on a real example!

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