[joelfolksy]

It seems like there are basically two types of programmers: those that think that programming languages are "done," and those that disagree.

To the former type, any modern language is roughly as good as any other, by definition, unless you've got an unusual use-case that requires something really specific. Thus any attempt at language advocacy sounds like tribalism or elitism. The people in this camp love to make analogies to woodworking tools, since innovation there stopped a while ago (presumably).

The latter type is perpetually depressed.