Agree with the other comments. Choice of programming language is in some ways tangential to concerns over vendor lock in since other people can always come alo

Agree with the other comments. Choice of programming language is in some ways tangential to concerns over vendor lock in since other people can always come along with a different implementation of the language, unless of course programming languages end up being found to be patentable (http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/04/13/1646215/oracle-and-google-spar-over-whether-programming-languages-can-be-copyrighted http://tech.slashdot.org/story/12/04/13/1646215/oracle-and-g...).