I think judging programming languages by their features is the same as judging people by their talent and not by their deeds. Take Java for example. Most peopl

I think judging programming languages by their features is the same as judging people by their talent and not by their deeds. Take Java for example. Most people (Dijkstra included) hate it. But look how much Java has accomplished. It's not a coincidence that Hadoop is written in Java. It's not a coincidence that Java is the primary language on Android. To quote a great man: "Java works. Java captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit" Same thing applies to PHP, Javascript, and whatever everyone hates. Couple of years ago I thought that Java was the Devil's invention and the most awful programming language ever. Then I started using Java with Hadoop. And for the first week Java was the most awful programming language ever. Two/three weeks in I was absolutely okay with Java. It worked. And for me that's the only thing that counts.