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The supreme confidence and comfort with presenting evidence free arguments is very much in step with most of his writing

That applies to more than one article on that website :)

Yes. But this

""The good languages have been those that were designed for their own creators: C, Perl, Smalltalk, Lisp.""

is a fair comment.

It also misplaces C++ in that list.

Some were.

To say that these are the good languages is hubris.

Exactly. Go and Rust comes to mind immidiately. Both excellent languages in my opinion crafted for the creators need. Although it's maybe not quite what Paul had in mind in 2001, but the world has changed a lot. A community project can't really outgrow these well funded big business language projects.

Go was created by Google, a larger corp than Sun ever was.