Argh. How could you read this post and still miss the point so badly? It is not about languages, it is about ideas. And the fact that you need years to master

Argh. How could you read this post and still miss the point so badly? It is not about languages, it is about ideas. And the fact that you need years to master each of these languages because of ideas they are built upon, not because of such trivial things as syntax. I strongly suspect that Joe would be equally comfortable with this list was C substituted with Go, Smalltalk substituted with Io or JavaScript substituted with Lua. To paraphrase: "what is it with people liking or not liking JavaScript"? I know what is it with these people: they are noobs (sorry in advance, this is not intended as offensive). I have been programming for just twenty years now and I just recently, a few years ago, understood all this, so I'm not exactly surprised by your post, but still, I thought that email so well written as Joe's here would repel this kind of "Javascript is bad, use WhatEver(tm)" talk. It seems I was overly optimistic with this one.