[nolanw]

I'm curious why you ascribe that preference to historical reasons. My exposure was in reverse order to yours but we have the same preference.

[veyron]

(on a side note: would be cool if HN had a SO-style notification system which would tell me when someone replies ...)

I think I have a solid understanding of both models and how to work with each, but as far as syntax goes I'm fairly ambivalent (granted, most of my code is in C/assembly).