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Re:Ask HN: What's the best web programming language? by ksvs on Friday March 20, 2009 @02:38PM (#525360)
there is no best language. they're all tools in a toolbox.

That's intellectual laziness masquerading as broad-mindedness. Obviously Ruby is going to be better for most web apps than Fortran.

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Re:Ask HN: What's the best web programming language? by noodle on Friday March 20, 2009 @03:00PM (#525392)
thats being a bit hypercritical and decontexualizing, don't you think? obviously he doesn't want to use cobol on punch cards, either, but do i actually have to spell that out? fine, i'll do it just for you:

there is no best language for web development . the subset of languages being used for modern web development are all tools in a toolbox.

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