1. I agree on your point about classification. Moreover the whole topic of language capabilities is overrated. There are many many decisions one should make dur

1. I agree on your point about classification. Moreover the whole topic of language capabilities is overrated. There are many many decisions one should make during a work on software project and the choice of language is just one of them (maybe even it is not the most important one). 2. But life, business, and software are full of trade-offs. If you can accept a little imperfection here, some cruft there, and sloppy duplication there, they you can hire from a bigger pool of employees, deploy to a wider range of platforms, hit more markets more frequently. The key point that the penny pinchers miss is that while using inferior tools has a cost associated with it, so does not using those tools. The important thing is to Always Be Shipping. </quote> (press C-f, type inferior tools) The article does not reflect my opinion (EDIT: but accidentally I agree with the above fragment). I was trying to make a short version (summary) of the article and as Joel (joelonsoftware.com) said: the trouble is if you put something up without writing a long enough post to actually make your full case, uhmm, you just get misunderstood, was sort of what I concluded. </quote>