heraclitus

The thing is that this article makes a lot of assertions and then doesn't provide any compelling evidence for me to believe them. Ex:

"Java makes doing dangerous (or interesting) things painful." Why? "It protects programmers from themselves." How? "If nothing else, it allows bad code to be isolated and encapsulated away from the rest of the system, protecting the other workers." Huh? Isn't this design, not language? "This comes at the cost of velocity." Huh? The tradeoff isn't immediately present to me.

And so on.

Nate Silver has a pretty good critical analysis of the topic (but it's from yesterday so doesn't take this particular survey into account):

http://www.fivethirtyeight.com/2009/05/is-public-opinion-cha...

Matching logarithm? Sweet.