The point was to highlight, in an amusing fashion (because the specifics were omitted), some of the silly ways in which people compare languages. By being aware

The point was to highlight, in an amusing fashion (because the specifics were omitted), some of the silly ways in which people compare languages. By being aware of the silly ways in which we can argue about languages we can, hopefully, find some meaningful ways to compare programming languages instead. It was amusing and it was educational.