I will eliminate Lua [because it is not a general purpose language] Umm... what? It's really hard to take anything from this article seriously after reading th

I will eliminate Lua [because it is not a general purpose language] Umm... what? It's really hard to take anything from this article seriously after reading that. Other gems include ruling out Clojure purely on the basis of syntax, Objective C because "it is mainly used in Mac OSX and iphone software" and Javascript "mainly for the same reason we don’t program in assembly any more — availability of highly optimizing compilers".