I don't think the argument is that some language will completely "save you from bad programming" but rather that it will encourage bad programming less some oth

I don't think the argument is that some language will completely "save you from bad programming" but rather that it will encourage bad programming less some other language. Some languages like Java require more lines of code and provide less mechanisms for dealing with complexity than other language (say Erlang), which means that you're more likely to write bad code in Java than Erlang. All languages are equal, but some are more equal than others.