I remember Mr. Atwood’s out-of-character post at The Daily WTF, as it was inspiring, as was many of the other posts here that encourage one to improve one’s skills. I keep hoping this blog will turn into something like Raymond Chen’s Old New Thing, you know, this is why Windows is crufty, because we had 16 bit conventions and we liked keeping customers.
I’m not disappointed that this blog is different, but still it seems like you are swinging a baseball bat through a china shop with your metaphors, with commenters spinning off on trivialities. Ah, there he goes breaking another one. I find it appealing in a different way, like watching a car crash with a scripted explosion. 
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WTF am I typing. Oh, Mr. Atwood should be jumping onto things like Clojure, because the promise is that low-level concurrency primitives are abstracted away (one has to discard assumptions about mutable programming though). Higher and higher we go, let go of memory control, now let go of concurrency control.
Mr. Atwood’s main point is that he rather stay in the higher abstraction strata, with non-deterministic resource cleanup, getting things done, no earth shattering kaboom. Which is perfectly fine, creating stackoverflow.com has garnered more better kudos ™ for Mr. Atwood that this blog. (I am pressing the C++ tag multiple times a week. The answer is RAII).
I take umbrage at your revelation that your programming as mere scripting, though. Is this as deep as this blog will go? I feel like you’re channeling a reminiscent Scotty, sitting on the mock-up bridge of the Enterprise on the ST:NG Holodeck. No more tech manuals for you.
What happened to all those inspiring posts of old? :-/ Why not point the spotlight on what is up and coming in programming? Things like Clojure are a step towards in your awaited paradigm shift (OMG douse me with hype-suppression). Don’t get stuck on your limits. Explore. And make sure to report back here.