[peterashford]

Substitute "productivity" there for power and I think the point still stands. PG sees a hierarchy of languages based on some inherent goodness of the language - and surprise, surprise, his favourite language, Lisp, is on top. I think that's BS. How good a language is depends more on the problem than some inherent quality of the language. I think it's pretty hard to get past the fact that a term like "Blub" clearly indicates that PG feels that he's a superior, higher class programmer than those who use "Blub" languages.

[Retra]

You say it depends on the problem you're solving, but if you turn around and look at the problems people are solving, you could easily see them falling largely into a few common classes.

Like, we all will admit that no natural language is inherently better than any other, but yet we still recommend that programmers learn English -- the quality of the language may not be inherent to the language, but it could be inherent to the context in which the language exists.