(Every week I hear about some new asynchronous web server written in Python. Do people really want to spend time working on their own problems, or do they just want to type as much code into the computer as possible?)
All I'm saying that evaluating every research language out there and seeing how well it suits your problem would just take too much time. Getting acquainted with a few well-known languages and a few DSLs or cult-followed languages should be sufficient.
(Every week I hear about some new asynchronous web server written in Python. Do people really want to spend time working on their own problems, or do they just want to type as much code into the computer as possible?)