“In that order. These are things for which frameworks like Ruby-on-Rails, Django and Catalyst were not invented, and which they are not offering today (unless you want to debate about the “simplicity” bit, in which case I would say that I meant simplicity for users, not simplicity for programmers). Frameworks were invented to lower the barriers of entry to programming, to make applications easier to develop and understand. They were invented for Developers, Developers, Developers! Frameworks are to web development now what Visual Basic was for Windows development 15 years ago.” source...