He had even stronger opinions about Java despite Amazon and Google (not to mention many others) being built in it. I could never figure that out because he's quite insightful about a lot of other things.
HN used to as well, every 2 or 3 years since it was started you'd have half the comments in a language discussion swearing blind that everyone was just about to switch to Lisp, then it was Erlang, then Haskell, then Scala.