Have you ever seen a project succeed or fail where anyone involved said "You know, if we had used a better programming language it would have all worked out"?

Have you ever seen a project succeed or fail where anyone involved said "You know, if we had used a better programming language it would have all worked out"? I have seen projects succeed or fail based on those three things Norvig calls out, I have never once seen a project succeed or fail because of the language used. Is it important that we have moved beyond hand coded assembly? Unequivocally, yes it is. Are you going to fail because of your language selection? Maybe if you pick Assembly, beyond that language selection isn't even a rounding error on probability of success. You can certainly develop rapidly in C++ if you have the right process and people. In fact that is where that quote came from, Norvig noting that devs at google where not hampered by their choice of Java and C++.