[nswanberg]

This reads like someone reading a 1995 article about a company switching from writing Netscape Enterprise Server code in C++ on a Windows machine to Apache code in perl on a Sun server, and then writing a defense of the x86 processor against SPARC.

I might have missed something but I don't recall the original PayPal article arguing that the switch was motivated by moving from a slow virtual machine to a faster one.

But just as switching from C++ to perl would trade some computing power for productivity in getting a site built, I don't see it as controversial for an organization to say they achieved the same productivity gains going from java to javascript.