Oh please, I don't buy that argument because I have seen too many language arguments devolve into Emacs/Vi pro/anti wars.<p>The people loving language wars are generally trolls, which carefully craft "arguments" that infuriate people while being wrong in a way that needs long expositions to answer.<p>I <i>do</i> expect better than that type of garbage from HN.<p>Edit: I do buy jacquesm's argument about pro and cons for languages; the fit with different problem spaces are different for different paradigms, etc.<p>For example, I'm personally going back to functional programming now, hoping for a new dawn in the coming mass-multicore world. But I'm not going to do any lisp language wars, since that is as useful as Emacs/Vi "debates".<p>Edit 2: If someone really think to learn something from language wars, why not just Google for a few? There are lots of them to review, on lots of web sites.