You may be correct in that the bulk of the market is in standard pizza & t-shirts, but the internet/computers didn't create that market.
The article was pointing out what ordering over the internet with computers can potentially add to the ordering experience. Using the "web" in the same way one might have used a fax machine isn't particularly interesting then or now.
In my experience, though, the cases where ORM's seem to be a good fit end up growing to cases where they're no longer a good fit - and getting away from them ends up hurting more than just starting without one to begin with.
I suspect those earlier attempts at learning to program were actually more instructive than that tweet suggests.
Also, "iOS development" is not a programming language and I'd be very skeptical of anyone who opines that Obj-c is easier to learn than PHP or js. (I also assume they're talking about Swift but I don't know much about it).
Their primary presentation is the 0-5 star rating which is perfectly intuitive.
If I'm reading the methodology correctly, the actual STAR score represents the incidence of concussion, in which lower is certainly better.
The only real confusing thing I see is the "star" naming of the "STAR evaluation score" vs. using a "star rating" (0-5) and how they are actually separate things.
I agree. The only way to have this language paradigm discussion productively is if we're all looking at two well written implementations of the same project in each.
Even then, I think the final conclusion (most likely "agree to disagree") will be that it's largely subjective, and heavily biased by familiarity.
Ultimately though, it's really just a distraction to avoid the much more controversial discussion we need to be having vis-à-vis tabs vs. spaces.
