I enjoyed the build up throughout the article to his conclusion. While I can't prove him wrong, a lot of very smart people came up with languages like Java and

I enjoyed the build up throughout the article to his conclusion. While I can't prove him wrong, a lot of very smart people came up with languages like Java and C# to solve these problems (ramp up, maintainability, retention, and more) as efficiently as possible. While I salute the author in his quest to be proven wrong, objectively, everything is a trade-off. I don't believe in better.