[Aftershock21]

"5/5 (or whatever the scale is) means that you can accomplish the most advanced task possible in the language"

I appreciate your sympathy. I have no problem with people who are born into scripting languages. Personally I started with C, C++ and worked on few scripting languages. My question came from more of curiosity. There is more learning curve in low-level languages because the very structure of your code can affect the memory foot-print of your programs and that requires careful crafting of data-structures and algorithms. At a scripting language level you are in a virtual "world". It does allows you to SOLVE pretty advanced problems but it does not necessarily translate into your expertise in the scripting language itself. For example, I might use Ruby to create true AI system but in the end its the algorithm that mattered not my knowledge of the language.

[gizzlon]

I don't know how much effort you put into learning high-level languages, but people coming from C tend to keep writing "C" in scripting languages as well.

While that can work, they miss out on all the cool and more advanced stuff these languages has to offer.