"I wouldn't write anything big in <insert language>" is pretty much always a true statement. What changes it is the framework.
I can write a web application in some homebrew <insert language> and it can grow to 40 developers, 1000 db tables and thousands of files. But it would be terrible to work on (I know I've seen it). Or i can write the same thing with a framework, and have it much more manageable.
Realistically, when was the last time you say down and wrote a big application in vanilla <insert language>?
Is this news? Because I've always assumed the tests are very biased. my car says it can get 70mpg in extra urban, yet it gets 54 max, I knew 70 was a lie when I bought it. Same with the tv, light bulbs, fridge and so on. In no way is any of it real world efficiency.
On accident is one of those American sayings that sounds weird to my English ears. Like poop. where did the second p come from???
That said, I think our dialects are merging, (well more likely British English is becoming Americanised, but you guys make all the tv, so that's to be expected), for example, when I was younger no one said "ass", it was always "arse", but nowadays it's nearly always "ass"; except for the older generations.
But, we have the same problem within the UK, in the north, we have three meals, breakfast, dinner and tea. In the south they have breakfast, lunch and dinner. It can be very confusing, especially in films when someone invites someone round for tea, but there's no food and it's 1pm!
so it's mod_perl, but javascript and nginx instead of apache and perl. seems like they've ignored history here, as mod_perl turned out to be a bad thing in the end, people messing with bits they really shouldn't leading to massive amounts of unmaintained legacy spaghetti code messing with all parts of apache.
bearing in mind mod_perl's original use was not for writing applications, it was for messing with apache, for doing the things you can't easily do in the config. but where there's a way, abuse will follow, and before you know it whole apps will be written with this
ah well, those who don't learn from history are doomed to repeat it.
so, while it may seem like a good idea now, you can bet in 5-10 years it will no longer look so clever
most drug research is done in university anyway, and in most countries government funded. big pharma does the part after that in order to get it to market. trials and tweaks etc
I was thinking is there a micro-kernel out there that uses VTx to separate the parts, like protected mode on steroids, turns out there is. Thought I'd share