Why do these kinds of posts produce so much noise on HN? Its not because HNewsers are silly or stupid. Its because programming languages really do matter. Ho

Why do these kinds of posts produce so much noise on HN? Its not because HNewsers are silly or stupid. Its because programming languages really do matter. However, experience with Java isn't enough to have a wise perspective on Java and experience with Javascript isn't enough to have a wise perspective on Javascript. All languages aren't alike and all languages aren't equally good (even if Turing equivalent). University exposure to various programming languages is helpful, but programming in a language amongst other experienced programmers is more valuable. I learned C while in grad school, but I really learned it at IBM while working on the Unix kernel. That gave a useful perspective on the strengths and weaknesses of C. So I can say that Java has some real advantages over C for certain kinds of work while C is the right language for kernel work. Here, on HN, I've learned that Java programmers like programming in Java and that Javascript programmers love programming in Javascript. But please don't pontificate on how wonderful functional programming is in Javascript if you haven't got a reasonable amount of experience with a real functional language (OCaml, Haskell, etc.). Or that Java is better than Python because [whatever] unless you've really programmed in Python too.