I'm suggesting an outside view: give up trying to evaluate languages based on their features, evaluate languages based on programs written in them. "X written

I'm suggesting an outside view: give up trying to evaluate languages based on their features, evaluate languages based on programs written in them. "X written in Y" advertises two things: - language X turned out to be a reasonably good language for writing program Y - program Y is likely to be good at things that X is known for making easy to do Both of these seem useful, if prone to motivated reasoning.