I think this is best taken as a half-serious, somewhat comedic take on these languages in the vein of PG's http://www.paulgraham.com/fix.html http://www.paulgra

I think this is best taken as a half-serious, somewhat comedic take on these languages in the vein of PG's http://www.paulgraham.com/fix.html http://www.paulgraham.com/fix.html. Some of them are quite funny. I also think that a large consideration is whether the author is personally interested in trying each language, which rules out many languages that are reasonable choices from a purely practical perspective (Fortran, Ada, etc. mentioned elsewhere).