Newsforge is running this article by Jenn Vesperman about programming language advocacy. Nothing new here, but it's interesting to see the same message being repeated in a new forum. Maybe this meme is becomming emergent?
Everywhere you turn in the computing world, there's someone claiming that programming language X "is best." Best for all circumstances, best in all cases, just plain best . But the world doesn't work that way. Languages have purposes, and a given language might be the best currently available for a given purpose. But no language is universally best for all purposes.
