Probably the reason he's in love with it has to do with deployment time. If you can write something in 10 lines and half an hour instead of 100 lines and two hours, you're probably going to write it in 10, even if it's just because you would like to be done coding as soon as possible.

Now -- 'unusual' object oriented features? Que? What do you speak of?
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