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On Thu, 17 Feb 2011, Hyman Rosen wrote:

> There in a nutshell is what all language wars come to: My favorite 
> language has powerful features which could be misused, but no one would do 
> that. Your favorite language has unfortunate features which render all 
> programs written in it unreliable and incomprehensible.

Yes, you can write excellent software in any reasonable language and you can 
write bad software in any reasonable language. The rest is just details. :)

Peter