[coldtea]

>What is the purpose of the parent comment? To score a point? To show us all the commenter is smarter than the vulgus?

To defend their technology/language of choice, who they felt was undeservingly dismissed as obsolete?

>The same point could have been made without the condescension.

I think the "less competition" is a valid point. People that dismiss languages as "old" or not fashionable enough, often miss opportunities in niche areas -- case in point all the COBOL jobs.