About the NOOB definition - Part 1

Paul pointed me to a TSS post I missed. Steve Yegge posted some rants about complexity and got to a conclusion about the how good and clean are scripting languages (Portrait of a NOOB ).
I couldn’t post a comment to it, since it was already closed to comments. So I guess I will answer here.
In this first part of a response to that blog, I will reproduce the post I did to TSS. Probably nobody read it since I posted it one month later.
First, let’s summarize Steve’s post (or what I understood of it):
1. Comments are metadata. Metadata is of no use for the compiler, so it can be get rid of.
2. Noobs are comment obsessed creatures, thus metadata enthusiastics.
3. Modeling is a way to comment intention of code in code language itself. So modeling a metadata creation process.
4. Teenagers are obsessive modelers.
5. Classes and in general OO, are metadata in code itself.
6. Static typing is also metadata since the real thing is memory afterwards.
7. Seasoned Programmer is one enlighten creature that does not use metadata, and thus can see the real thing when coding, not ethereal domain models.
What do I agree with:
Metadata is useless for the compiler. True.
Modeling is a metadata creation process. True.
What do I disagree with:
Metadata (at least not all) is not useless. Metadata is important, although not for the compiler.
Probably one of the things Steve Yegge misses in the post is that a language has much more than just telling the compiler what to do. In the DSL post, we talk about languages oriented to one specific domain, using vocabulary and grammar of that domain only. The idea is languages are there to help you solve a real life problem, not to help the compiler. Languages are for you (and your peers), not for the machine. And maybe not all languages are meant for a computer to read them.
Furthermore: Lack of metadata does not mean better code.
Here we talk about two very different issues: Code quality and the actual coding process. One may affect the other. A good coding process should help produce healthy and good code quality.
Any code with or without the comments will execute the same, good or bad. So comments may not add quality per se.
But, adding comment may affect (and improve) the coding process.

Now, here are my definitions:
Coding: Process of describing the solution using a specific language or set of languages.
Language: Set of words (verbs, nouns) and grammar, used to create describing sentences.
Coding Level: Abstraction level at which the solution is described.
Compiler: Entity that will convert a solution description down into another description in another language (usually a more detailed one).
So, for all of you that think that your Java lines of code actually execute, sorry to tell you that is not true. Those lines will be converted into bytecode. And that is another language that will not execute either. It will be converted again into (probably C) calls to the Operating system at hand. And those to assembler codes, to binary codes and then to electric impulses. Lots of compilers, huh?
Well, for each compiler of Level X(n), the language of compiler X(n-1) is a level higher, and contains sentences that entities of that level can understand. And for X(n) those are just a less detailed solution. Since the sentences are actually the same solution, I may say X(n-1) is just a modeled solution for X(n-1) entities, and thus metadata for X(n).
So, metadata is not a useless waste of characters, it is simply of use for other entities that are not the compiler at hand (Junit 4 and TestNG are proof of that). If you fail to see that, is because you are looking at your compiler level, with your actual language rules.
Thus, for me, a NOOb is when you go out the street and start walking, knowing your block (you talk too much about all that is in your block). Teenage is when you have a car and star driving to know your city (you talk about love and other things, not much about your block). Seasoned programmer is when, using a SUV, you start climbing mountains and going out to wild lands and foreign countries (you start talking other languages). You become an analyst when you drop your car and start studying the world by TV and news channels, and fly around in helicopters and planes (you now talk politics, business). You end up being a senior ancient, when you take your ticket to the space station, and see the whole world at a glance, and start talking about future.
Will