For example, working with GUI applications and C/+ can make your code a big pile of garbage really quickly because representing your data in something like an ORM is not standard, you can't do the many tricks like getters/setters in C/+, but you can in Python, or C#, etc. The benefits of VM languages are, in my opinion, not appreciated enough.
In my opinion knowing the right tools for the job is far more important than how you comment your code, how you name your variables, or anything else. I wish there were more posts where people impliment an application with multiple tool sets and compare them, give insight into what some things are good for and not. "Tool Benchmarking" might be a good term for it.