[bprater]

Are we seriously going to have this argument? This is Hacker News, where most of us don't play the Ford/Chevy game with programming languages. Most of us have used multiple languages and know exactly when to employ the right tool for the job.

Perhaps we should have a new rule: if you haven't built a full-scale web app in a specific language, we'd prefer you not comment on it.

[chromatic]

Why a web app? I write a lot of software which has nothing to do with the web, and I use Perl very happily for some of it.

[jrockway]

I just assumed he typo'd "something like" as the empty string.