[pessimizer]

Nitrogen is particularly confusing because it is largely an ajax/comet abstraction.

Try Webmachine and erlydtl w/Mochiweb. Webmachine is like Sinatra, but more, and erlydtl is just Django templating.

Erlang is absurdly easy to read, but it doesn't look like algol, it looks like prolog. You get used to it, and after you do, coding in it is really fast.