Sure, and any smart team of developers can get over language issues, but then again any smart team can get over pretty much any problem - it doesn't make the la

Sure, and any smart team of developers can get over language issues, but then again any smart team can get over pretty much any problem - it doesn't make the language irrelevant. For example, I could write a version of C where you have to type each line twice, once forwards and once backwards. You could get over it, but it wouldn't make it illegitimate to suppose that the language could be improved on and was making life difficult. You hear this argument a lot (on hn and elsewhere) and I for one call bullshit - language matters enormously, but if you don't get an ideal language, you can work around it, yes. It doesn't take away from the fact that language matters.