You know, "meh". This is basically like saying, "when he was at Microsoft, Spolsky traded off the vision of a grand unified scripting architecture for all Microsoft products in favor of something that the Excel team could actually execute on and launch. Later on, when he founded Fog Creek, he allowed a developer to write a custom scripting language to implement common-codebase cross-platform, rather than waiting for the industry to come up with a totally acceptable cross-platform development environment". He sounds consistently pragmatic, if perhaps a bit inelegant.