Why was this submitted again? I responded when it was submitted 2 days ago ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1396763 ), and jrockway already did an excellent point-by-point rebuttal ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1396823 ).

I really don't want to read an idiot F# consultant's[1] view on how every language that isn't the one he uses is dumb.

[1] For reasonably diminished values of "consultant".