Magpie Developers

I hadn’t seen this post before, but it sums up my own feelings on a subject so well that I feel relieved knowing somebody has already done a better job of writing it than I could have done, and I don’t have to do anything.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/01/the-magpie-developer.html

This reference is also superb:

http://quoderat.megginson.com/2006/03/06/programming-languages-of-distinction/