Sometimes articles about programming languages do belong here. They have a large audience here and have since I've been around. This isn't "Startup News" and do

Sometimes articles about programming languages do belong here. They have a large audience here and have since I've been around. This isn't "Startup News" and doesn't purport to be. In fact, the guidelines for hacker news specifically state that "[On Topic]...includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity."