Don't bother to RTFA. This guy has had a beef with Java for years, and a large chunk of the article is devoted to gratuitously dumping on Java. That's when he's not trying to justify why its a "good thing" that he has more money than most other people.
At one time or another I have been fluent in around 6 or 7 programming languages. Personally, I think nothing comes close to Java if building large, maintainable and networked systems is your goal. As many people have pointed out, Perl and Python are good for small jobs but you'd be insane to architect a really large system on them.
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At one time or another I have been fluent in around 6 or 7 programming languages. Personally, I think nothing comes close to Java if building large, maintainable and networked systems is your goal. As many people have pointed out, Perl and Python are good for small jobs but you'd be insane to architect a really large system on them.