One thing that confuses me is the need for some people to read emotion into nearly everything. This is especially prevalent within the group of people people wh

One thing that confuses me is the need for some people to read emotion into nearly everything. This is especially prevalent within the group of people people who tend to prefer Ruby, JavaScript, and languages like those. When I read soup10's comment, or some of the other comments here expressing a similar take on the matter, I don't see "hatred" involved. In fact, I see a clear lack of emotion. In place of emotion is a pragmatic and analytical point of view, where the benefits are weighed against the drawbacks, and a conclusion is drawn. Emotion doesn't really play a role at all in such analysis. It strikes me as odd to see it suggested that emotion is involved, when it pretty obviously isn't.