Funny how people get riled up over stuff like this. The article is from 6 years ago and you still hear the same comments like "the _____ sucks but the ____ is

Funny how people get riled up over stuff like this. The article is from 6 years ago and you still hear the same comments like "the _____ sucks but the ____ is fine" (ecosystem|language,types|jvm etc.) The only way to have a healthy debate about a language is to have context: if you are building an integration between a custom app with a RDBMS that has to send data to an ERP system in XML, and there are specs with interfacing the ERP in Java, C#, C++ are you going to argue that Haskell or Lisp is better? If you have to put a simple web application together quickly as a working prototype are you going to choose Ruby/Rails, Perl, Java/JSP, etc.? It probably doesn't matter technically but does matter when it comes to the experience of the people building it. Just debating languages against each other in some sort of "cage match" is sort of ridiculous.