Bah, a voice of sanity. :-) I think the problem is that the bigger the ecosystem for an environment, the more valuable peoples' skills are, with those tools.

Bah, a voice of sanity. :-) I think the problem is that the bigger the ecosystem for an environment, the more valuable peoples' skills are, with those tools. Hence, language advocacy is an "efficient" choice (see the blog post about Perl on the front page, right now... pure flaming comments voted high.)