It's kinda ironic that a guide to minimalism, written in 2002, obviously has in mind a language like Java or C++ (the vocabulary used makes it crystal clear)... Languages which are not exactly known for their lack of verboseness ; )<p>I know that for many here Java/C++/C# + ORM + XML + SQL is "The one true way of life"...<p>But I moved on: I do really believe pg's point about "Beating the average" and trying to "think outside the (Java/C# ORM XML SQL) box"...<p>For example, I'd personally much rather see posted and upvoted <i>recent</i> writings about languages offering, say, lockless concurrency (Clojure) or specifically preventing "type inheritance" (hence forcing you to use composition instead of inheritance) (Go), etc.<p>I mean, it's cute to see a 2002 presentation about ways to deal with late nineties issues but honestly I think the world should start to move on.<p>I don't doubt there are a lot of older codebase around that would benefit from this but what about people would start to use HN to try to move the world forward?