[jstewartmobile]

2nd chart seems more driven by fashion/geek-cred than intrinsic language qualities.

Never met a Delphi expert who didn't love it. Never met a C++ expert who didn't have grave reservations about it. It's like, "Here's your bag of infected needles. You can make really slick games with them, but be careful!"

bash... WTF?

[nerdponx]

I suspect some people use the "like" list as a "here are the 5 things I know how to do best" list.