"The language debate is about one thing – being scared of the dark. Not liking what you can’t see, or what you don’t know" – interesting take. I agree that I often ignore languages cause I don’t have the bandwidth to grok them but I don’t dish them for that same reason. Think that in this day in age languages should all-but be irrelevant for more development. I do understand that in some scenarios the benefits of dynamic languages will outweigh the benefits of a rich IDE etc but it is again horses-for-courses.

"C#, Ruby, Javascript, Boo/brail, a bunch of languages i don’t know yet, xml + xslt" – love this list! in particular the bit about XML(insert XAML)/XSLT being at the END of the list. I think people that want to work with XAML rather than a designer are just weird.

Every language serves a purpose. Choose the language that serves your purpose best. It may be a different one each time.