>"Decisions made by people speaking their non-native languages appear to be less concerned with morality and more concerned with rationality and utilitarianism.

>"Decisions made by people speaking their non-native languages appear to be less concerned with morality and more concerned with rationality and utilitarianism." Well, now that explains my embarrassingly immoral uses of Perl. Speaking of embarrassing, I'd still really like to know why every time I hack Perl code, the following song comes always to mind? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPkTGm4RtVM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPkTGm4RtVM On a more serious note, I wonder if our "favorite" (native?) programming languages are the cause of some of the far too common overly emotional responses seen in language discussions?