This article is frustrating to me. So many modern languages and toolsets are omitted from the comparisons provided that the conclusions, to me, lack authority.

This article is frustrating to me. So many modern languages and toolsets are omitted from the comparisons provided that the conclusions, to me, lack authority. But they're presented as if they're obvious, almost trivial. I have great respect for C. But it's only one language and it solves one set of problems. I'm not even sure the concept of a "desert island language" is valid - except to ask "what tool would you want to have to build the tools you actually want?" In that case, the answer might be C, but the article doesn't do any kind of job showing that.