Well that may be true in theory (and I used to think so too) but in practice I have only really seen two kinds of code in production: good code written by good

Well that may be true in theory (and I used to think so too) but in practice I have only really seen two kinds of code in production: good code written by good coders and bad code written by bad coders. Yeah, it is true that some languages are by design bad choices in certain kinds of applications... But really, the quality of the programmer seems to be the dominant factor in most cases. YMMV and all that.