While I don't know Mr. Swaine's qualifications, it has
always seemed rather pointless to me to worry very much
about what anyone who isn't very familiar with a
language has to say about it. I write most of my code for
work in Common Lisp, Perl, and (just now starting)
Smalltalk, and on the occasions when I might discuss this
with others, it's quite interesting to hear just how many
misconceptions they have about these languages. When it
comes to language advocacy, I think it's much more
appropriate to talk about all the wonderful things one's own
favorite(s) can do than what others can't, if for no other
reason than one is often (though not always) less
knowledgable about those others.
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